11 years ago
A Salina man is honored by AARP with its highest volunteer award. The organization honored 90-year-old Frank McBride with its 2013 outstanding community service volunteer award during a luncheon banquet in Salina on Monday. Each year, AARP, the nonprofit membership organization for people 50 and over, presents its most prestigious award, the Ethel Percy Andrus Award ...

11 years ago
A former roommate is arrested after a stolen bike is located. Police arrested 27-year-old Justin Charlton of Salina, after his former roomate found his stolen "Gary Fisher Bicycle" listed for sale online at a Salina pawn shop. Police say back on August 25th, the bike, valued at $850 was taken from a residence in the 800 block ...

11 years ago
Police arrest a suspect that was sought in a mid-October assault. Police arrested 34-year-old Christopher Clark, 917 N. 13th, after he allegedly threatened a woman with a handgun in north Salina. Police say back on October 13th, a neighborhood dispute began over some dogs with a 34-year-old woman - and escalated when Clark allegedly pointed a gun ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary and theft near the Saline/Ottawa County border. Deputies say someone entered a storage shed on a property in the 1400 block of E. Ottawa Road and removed numerous items. The owner told officers that a Honeywell 5500 watt generator was stolen as well as a Stihl brand chain ...

11 years ago
A motorcycle is stolen from a Salina residence. Police say a 2004 Yamaha Y2FR6 motorcycle was taken from a side yard at a residence in the 400 block of S. College over the weekend. The owner told officers the bike was parked on the west side of his house with no key in the ignition. The theft ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating a robbery at a Salina fast food shop. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen an undisclosed amount of cash was stolen from the Subway restaurant, 1014 E. Crawford, after a robbery on Saturday night just after closing at 10:15pm. A 23-year-old female employee told officers that a suspect, described as a black male with a ...

11 years ago
It’s been a record year for Darius Rucker. Arguably one of the most applauded singles of the year, “Wagon Wheel” has helped the platinum-selling entertainer earn multiple nominations from the CMA and ACA Awards. Fans of his third chart-topping country album, True Believers, can catch Rucker at the Salina Bicentennial Center on Saturday, March 8 ...

11 years ago
An ancient insect-eating mammal has been named after a University of Kansas professor. The university says in a news release that researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Denver Museum of Nature & Science recently have published a description of a fossilized 50-million-year-old creature. They named the shrew-sized mammal after Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Biodiversity ...

11 years ago
The iconic St. Fidelis Catholic Church in Victoria - better known as the Cathedral of the Plains - is working to protect its 48 historic stained-glass windows. The church has started a $155,000 project to refurbish the windows, which are valued at more than $1 million. The 140-foot twin towers of the Cathedral on the ...

11 years ago
A Kansas National Guard helicopter unit is deploying to Afghanistan to participate in a medical mission. About 45 soldiers of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment are heading first to Fort Hood, Texas, for more training before deploying to Afghanistan. The soldiers will provide evacuation support by flying wounded soldiers from the battlefield and moving patients ...

11 years ago
A Wichita State University professor has donated $2.2 million to the university's chemistry department where he spent more than 40 years. The WSU Foundation says Erach R. Talaty left the money to the chemistry program to help create endowed scholarships and fellowships for students and to establish a teaching and research position for the department. The Wichita ...