11 years ago
A giant blue crane that has been a big part of the renovation of the Kansas Statehouse for more than three years is coming down. Project Manager Jim Rinner says general contractor JE Dunn Construction expects the crane to be dismantled by the end of the week. Workers are using an equally large red crane to take ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in the appeals of two brothers sentenced to death for murders committed in December 2000. Justices have scheduled two-hour hearings on Tuesday for Jonathan Carr and his brother, Reginald Carr. The Carr brothers were convicted for killing three men and a woman on Dec. 15, 2000, as the ...

11 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts has announced he'll vote against a bipartisan budget deal, but the Kansas Republican's primary opponent says Roberts should have spoken up earlier. Roberts said Wednesday that he doesn't think the deal tackles major fiscal problems and represents only more taxing and spending. The deal was crafted by Republican House Budget Committee Chairman ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Wesleyan University stadium project is moving forward. According to the school, on Monday the KWU Executive Committee and the Committee on Finance & Operations met in a joint session, acting on behalf of the Board of Trustees, and voted to move forward with demolition of Glenn Martin Stadium and to begin Phase I of ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are interviewing a known suspect after a TV and bikes are stolen. A Salina woman contacted police after discovering that some of the items she planned to take with her in a move, were missing. Police say a 50-inch flat screen TV and two chopper style bikes were stolen from a home in the 900 ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary. Officers were called to the 500 block of E. Claflin after a homeowner realized his detached garaged had been entered and television was stolen. Police say a 60-inch Sanyo flat screen TV was ripped off the wall and removed. Total loss and damage is listed at $1,400.

11 years ago
After more than a year of site studies, planning and community meetings, Salina USD 305 Board of Education approved a resolution yesterday to place a $110.7 million bond issue on the April 8, 2014 mail-in ballot. 305 Superintendent Bill Hall tells KSAL News that pushing the issue into the future could end up costing the citizens ...

11 years ago
A brief car chase ends with the arrest of a Salina man. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, an officer who had filed the report of a stolen car on Tuesday morning, later recognized the vehicle while on patrol. Police say the 2004 Honda Accord was stolen in the 700 block of Birch Tuesday, after the owner left ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating after Riley County police shot and wounded a man outside a Manhattan hotel. Riley County police spokesman Matthew Droge says in a news release that police were called to the Quality Inn and Suites early Tuesday on reports that someone was firing shots outside the hotel. Droge says when the ...

11 years ago
A national organization is coming to Fort Riley to lay a wreath at the post cemetery to honor fallen soldiers. The event Saturday is part of the Wreaths Across America program that honors soldiers and families of those in uniform, and educates children about the role of the military to protect freedom. Wreaths Across America placed 406,000 ...

11 years ago
Authorities in northeast Kansas have arrested two Mexican nationals accused of hauling more than 200 pounds of marijuana. The St. Joseph News-Press reports (http://bit.ly/1gXU3v4 ) Wathena Police Chief Jason Pendleton stopped the men for speeding as they were driving through Wathena on U.S. 36 last week. Pendleton says officers found 151 packages of suspected marijuana, totaling about ...