11 years ago
A car verses train accident leaves a Salina man with minor injuries and charges of DUI. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, a 2007 PT Cruiser was eastbound on North Street when it collided with a Union Pacific train near the intersection of North and 3rd Street at about 10:25pm on Thursday evening. Police say the driver, ...

11 years ago
Three teens are arrested after a woman returns home to see three suspects fleeing from inside. Salina Police arrested 17-year-old Rolando Rocha, 17-year-old Brandon LaBarge and 16-year-old Joshua Blake, all of Salina after they allegedly stole items from inside a home at 807 Willis. Police say Leigh Ann Johnson pulled up to her home around 8:15am on ...

11 years ago
The new guide for legislative interns at the Capitol does not contain proposed restrictions ranging from the amount of perfume and the number of earrings interns can wear. Numerous rules suggested last week for inclusion in the 2014 intern handbook by Rep. Peggy Mast, an Emporia Republican, were edited out. Also removed from the document ...

11 years ago
Is there any evidence that the mythical creature Bigfoot is in Kansas, or in the Salina area? You can find out Sunday night. Last January a television crew was in Kansas looking for Bigfoot. At the time, Saline County sheriff's deputies got a call of suspicious vehicles near a rural residence. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski ...

11 years ago
A thief suspected of stealing a wallet is caught on video. According to Salina Police, on December 27th a woman accidentally left her wallet in the restroom at Casey's, 2404 S. 9th. The white female in the video is suspected of taking the wallet. If you can identify the men in the video, or if you ...

11 years ago
More than 80 professors in Kansas are asking the Board of Regents to suspend a new social media policy. The University of Kansas and Kansas State University professors signed a letter to the regents, expressing "continued concern" about the policy. They say the policy prevents faculty and staff at the state's universities from exercising their ...

11 years ago
Wichita police say a woman died when she was hit by a truck while riding her bicycle. The truck driver then left the scene. Lt. Jose Salcido says the woman, who was in her 30s, was hit from behind and died at the scene Thursday. The woman was riding with another bicyclist in an outer lane ...

11 years ago
The American Civil Liberties Union wants a federal judge to send a lawsuit over Kansas' enforcement of its proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters back to state court. In a motion filed Thursday, the ACLU said the lawsuit raises questions only about whether policies pursued by Secretary of State Kris Kobach violate the state constitution, leaving no federal ...

11 years ago
A Wichita firm has won a $20 million federal contract to build a maintenance hangar for drones at Fort Riley. The Law Co. was awarded the contract by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. The company will build a 40,000-square-foot hangar at the northeast Kansas Army post for Gray Eagle drones. More than 100 soldiers are assigned ...

11 years ago
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says federal prosecutors collected about $12.1 million in criminal and civil legal actions last year. Grissom says in a news release that $6.1 million of the total came from criminal cases and $6 million from civil actions. His office also worked with other U.S. attorney's offices in other states and the Justice Department ...

11 years ago
Federal prosecutors in Kansas have filed so many firearms cases that the Midwestern farm state ranked third last year among the 94 judicial districts nationwide in the number of gun prosecutions. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says in a news release Thursday that his office prosecuted 298 firearms cases in 2013, up from 291 the previous year, ...