11 years ago
The buildings that once housed St. John's Hospital in Salina will be coming down. Salina's Heritage Commission on Wednesday approved plans to demolish the buildings, saying restoring them would be too costly. Salina Regional Health Center owns the buildings on the St. John's campus, which has been vacant since 2010. Jack Hinnenkamp, of Salina Regional Health Center, said ...

11 years ago
Herb Weatherwax charms visitors each of the three days a week he volunteers at a memorial for the USS Arizona, a battleship that sank in the 1941 Japanese attack. The 96-year-old retired electrician is one of four former servicemen who lived through the aerial bombing and now greet people at the historic site. Their numbers are dwindling. ...

11 years ago
Kansas is assembling an economic incentive package geared at landing a new Boeing contract to build the aviation giant's 777X commercial aircraft. Administration officials say Wednesday they can't divulge details of the Kansas package, citing a nondisclosure agreement signed with Boeing when talks began in recent weeks. Gov. Sam Brownback has said that Kansas would make a ...

11 years ago
A Dodge City man has been bound over for trial in the 2008 death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter. KWCH-TV reports a Ford County judge ordered Brock Cunningham to be tried on charges of first-degree murder and child abuse. The death of Natalie Pickle was ruled a homicide, but Cunningham was not arrested until earlier this year. ...

11 years ago
Police say an accused peeping Tom faces a misdemeanor charge after a topless woman chased him through a northeast Kansas department store. The Kansas City Star reports that 35-year-old Jeremy F. Bradley, 35, of Raytown, was charged Tuesday in Lenexa Municipal Court with breach of privacy. His home phone number is disconnected. Police say the woman was ...

11 years ago
An assistant Kansas attorney general says there's no decision yet on whether the state will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a Parsons woman and her three children. But Assistant Attorney General Amy Hanley declined to comment further Wednesday about the prosecution of 22-year-old David Cornell Bennett Jr., of Cherryvale. The alternative ...

11 years ago
Tools are taken from a detached garage. Salina Police are investigating the theft of a collection of tools from a garage at a home in the 200 block of N.11th. Police say sometime between May 13th and December 2nd, someone entered an unlocked garage and removed multiple tools including a torque wrench, socket set and ...

11 years ago
Thieves damage a Salina business and walk out with over $700 in cash. Salina Police are investigating a business burglary that occurred at Propane Central, 409 W. North, sometime between 12:30pm Sunday and Monday morning at 7am. Staff contacted police after discovering a padlock had been cut off one of the doors and that a bank bag ...

11 years ago
The Riley County police department says it is still looking for two people who have been missing since 1981. Police say Stevie Hammerle and Joseph Grashner have been missing since they left a party in Manhattan on Aug. 22nd, 1981. Hammerle and Grashner were last seen leaving the party with two other people. Anyone ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is hospitalized after stepping out of a moving vehicle. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, 24-year-old Joshua Svendblad was transported to Salina Regional Health Center late Tuesday after suffering a fractured skull. Police say Svendblad was a passenger in a pickup driven by 23-year-old Kaitlin Wilson. The two apparently had just left a residence in Salina ...

11 years ago
Historic preservationists are fighting a plan to widen U.S. 50 in western Kansas, which would require demolishing a longtime landmark near Dodge City. State transportation officials say the four-lane expansion from Dodge City to Cimarron would likely require leveling the "Points of Rock" monument, a steel sculpture of several horsemen sitting on top of a ...