11 years ago
A conservative Republican state senator from northeast Kansas is launching an exploratory committee to consider challenging incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts in the August primary. Sen. Dennis Pyle of Hiawatha said Friday he is asking residents to help him decide in the next 10 days if he should join Leawood radiologist Milton Wolf in challenging Roberts. Pyle says ...

11 years ago
Former state Rep. Kent Roth of Ellinwood has withdrawn from the GOP primary race in the 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas. Roth, an Ellinwood attorney, said Friday he plans to support Alan LaPolice, a Clyde farmer and educator, in the GOP primary against incumbent Rep. Tim Huelskamp. The Hutchinson News reports Roth says his ...

11 years ago
A Lindsborg man is hurt in a single vehicle crash in rural Pottawatomie County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 45-year-old Brad Anderson of Lindsborg was driving a Ford F350 pickup truck south on K 99 Highway. The passenger side wheels dropped off the west side of the road. Anderson overcorrected, came back on the road, ...

11 years ago
Members of the Kansas National Guard will attend and participate in Memorial Day events at multiple communities around the state. According to the agency, a couple of events are scheduled on Saturday, while the rest wile be on Monday. The following events are scheduled for Saturday: Topeka Tech. Sgt. Daniel Berends and Senior Airman T.J. Seelbach Jr., ...

11 years ago
Locally heavy rainfall was causing some minor flooding in parts of Kansas, but a Wichita forecaster says most of it was confined to city streets where drainage isn't very good. National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Smith says water had covered a road in western Butler County on Friday, but most other roads were still passable ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is jailed after pawning items stolen from a home where he was staying. Police arrested 27-year-old Evan Peryer on Thursday after an investigation revealed he had, over the course of two months, removed numerous items from a house and traded them for cash at several local pawn shops. Police say Peryer removed jewelry, electronics, ...

11 years ago
Former long-time Salina Police Chief Jim Hill will take over security for an Oklahoma school district. Tulsa Public Schools announced this week that Hill has been selected as the new chief of the Campus Police Department, pending approval by the Board of Education. According to the district, a selection committee comprised of principals, administrators, community members ...

11 years ago
Two more "Hard 50" prison sentences have been vacated by the Kansas Supreme Court and sent back to the lower courts, including one that was at the heart of a 2013 legislative special session. The rulings issued Friday by the court dealt only with whether the prison sentences of Matthew Astorga and Joaquin DeAnda were constitutional. ...

11 years ago
A Salina Police officer's thumb is broken while capturing a man running away from law enforcement. Officers were called to the 300 block of S. 11th on Thursday just before midnight after a concerned citizen called about suspicious behavior of a man in the area. Officers made contact with 25-year-old Ryan Kent of Salina on the street ...

11 years ago
Field work started this week in a project to clean up contamination in the Salina Airport Industrial Center. At issue is contamination, things like solvents that have seeped into the ground, left behind when the Air Force vacated the base. The area is now the Salina Regional Airport. The main concern is two large underground plumes ...

11 years ago
An investigation leads to charges against a gas station employee for sexual battery. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, a warrant was requested for 60-year-old Rasikbhi Mody, 1124 McAdams Road, after police interviewed a 17-year-old female who reported an incident last month at the Pump Mart at 1118 N. 9th. Police say that the female walked into the ...