11 years ago
The first flu case of the season has been reported in Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the case was reported in Northeast Kansas. Health officials are reminding Kansans that it's not too late to get vaccinated against influenza. Influenza vaccine is recommended for nearly everyone six months of age and older. ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after counterfeit money was used at Walgreens on Friday. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, someone used five, counterfeit $100 bills on October 31st to purchase five Green Dot money cards. Staff at Walgreens at 700 S. Broadway contacted authorities after the purchase was made at the counter around 10pm. Police say the investigation is ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is facing burglary and theft charges. Police arrested 20-year-old Codi Fairbanks on Sunday in connection to a residential burglary that occurred early Saturday morning between 1am and 2am. Police allege that Fairbanks forced a back door open on a home in the 500 block of South Clark and stole a digital camera and a ...

11 years ago
A legendary country music group that has over 30 hits is coming to Salina. Salina Media Group Radio Station y 93.7 welcomes Diamond Rio to the Stiefel Theatre. Diamond Rio is a six-time Vocal Group of the Year. The group won their first Grammy for their album "The Reason", which also garnered the band their first ...

11 years ago
A former University of Kansas student is fighting his expulsion over social media posts about his ex-girlfriend. The university expelled Navid Yeasin in November 2013 for violating an order not to contact his ex-girlfriend in any way. Yeasin sued earlier this year and a Douglas County judge ruled in September that the school did not have ...

11 years ago
The Reno County Sheriff's Office says a 63-year-old man has died after his tractor flipped over. Deputies say Larry Lester was killed Saturday after being pinned under the Ford tractor he was driving on his property near Arlington. They say Lester was using the tractor to pull trees when the tractor flipped backward. ...

11 years ago
Wichita authorities have rescued a 1,100-pound horse that partially fell through abandoned railroad tracks. Wichita police, animal control and firefighters worked together to pull the horse from the hole on Sunday. It took responders more than two hours to free the animal. Authorities constructed a pulley system and about six firefighters hoisted the horse out of the ...

11 years ago
An eternal flame soon will be relighted at a veterans' memorial on the northwest corner of the Osage County Courthouse. The flame is part of a monument that was dedicated in 1969. But the gas flame was snuffed out in the mid-1970s because of rising gas prices. American Legion Post 125 commander Jayson Massey says he ...

11 years ago
Authorities say a man has been wounded in a hunting accident in central Kansas. The Clay County sheriff’s office said in a news release Sunday that a 12-year-old shot 56-year-old Jerome Valdez of Holton in the back. The accident happened just before 11 a.m. while the pair was flushing a covey of quail. Valdez was taken to ...

11 years ago
While the Kansas campaign for U.S. Senate might be getting national attention, another Kansas congressional race might also be coming down to the wire. Democrat Jim Sherow is trying to unseat incumbent Republican Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp in what might potentially be a closer race than many expected for Kansas's 1st Congressional District. Though there is ...

11 years ago
A campaign flyer has another university official in Kansas explaining that he is not endorsing a candidate. Fort Hays State University President Emeritus Edward Hammond is issuing a statement after his photo and a quote from him appeared on a campaign flyer/mailer that was sent by the Kansas Republican Party endorsing Governor Brownback. The campaign ...