11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a couple of burglaries - after items are taken from a car and an enclosed trailer. Police say someone removed a purse and a tote bag containing perfume, greeting cards and breast pump from a Ford sedan that was left unlocked on a driveway in the 1800 block of Highland sometime between ...

11 years ago
Attorneys for Kansas and Nebraska are scheduled to make their cases before the U.S. Supreme Court next week in a longstanding dispute over water use in the Republican River. A special master appointed by the Supreme Court concluded last year that Nebraska owes Kansas a combined $5.5 million for overusing water in 2005 and 2006. The Topeka ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is charged with rape after a woman is held against her will. Officers arrested 35-year-old Jack A. Kelley on Tuesday after a woman contacted police about alleged abuse that occurred in an east Salina home. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, the female victim who is in her 30's, told police the incidents took place ...

11 years ago
Candidates in local Saline County races participated in a forum Tuesday night answering questions in front of a large crowd, and at times trading barbs. Candidates for Saline County Commission, state legislature, and the United States House of representatives all appeared. Monte Shadwick and Stephanie Cool, candidates for Saline County Commission District 1 , began the evening. ...

11 years ago
A former executive officer of a Manhattan builders association has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing from the organization. 45-year-old Tracy Roberts of Wamego was sentenced on Monday on 30 charges of felony theft. Authorities say Roberts wrote business checks from the Flint Hills Area Builders Association for personal use between 2008 and 2013. ...

11 years ago
A Manhattan woman has pleaded guilty to a marriage fraud scheme with a man who prosecutors say was trying to circumvent U.S. immigration laws. 48-year-old Jacqueline Reed pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. A federal prosecutor says Reed submitted fraudulent paperwork to immigration authorities. The prosecutor says paperwork included a marriage ...

11 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas should defend the state constitution's ban on gay marriage in court because the people have spoken on the issue. A spokesman for Brownback's Democratic challenger, Paul Davis, said Tuesday that Davis is focused on issues that unite Kansas residents, including education and the economy. Kansas voters approved the gay marriage ban ...

11 years ago
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts is struggling to win re-election, and the wide open spaces of his childhood are both his best chance for saving his political career and the biggest threat to it. The 78-year-old Republican must wring every friendly vote out of Kansas' 99 rural counties to turn back the challenge from a suburban businessman ...

11 years ago
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole plans to visit his hometown of Russell and other northwest and north-central towns during the next leg of his homecoming tour of all 105 Kansas counties. The 91-year-old Dole lives in Washington, D.C., and is making the trips to greet longtime friends and supporters. Dole is scheduled to begin the trip Saturday ...

11 years ago
The director of the Saline County Health Department unexpectedly resigned Tuesday afternoon. Saline County Commission Chairman Randy Duncan tells KSAL News that Bronson Farmer tendered his resignation mid-afternoon, which the commission accepted. The resignation is effective immediately. Duncan says that the resignation came as a surprise to him. "That being said, I think it's probably for the ...

11 years ago
After a slow start to 2014, several wind energy projects in Kansas are under construction and more are planned once utilities have signed contracts to purchase the power they generate. The Wichita Eagle reports the state has nearly 3,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity in 25 wind farms, and four wind farms under construction bring an ...