11 years ago
An elderly woman in Salina narrowly avoids becoming a scam victim Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that a 92-year-old woman received a phone call Wednesday between 10:30 and 11:00 in the morning. She was told that she had won $3 million from Publisher's Clearing House, and also a new BMW vehicle. To collect her prizes, the ...

11 years ago
The kindness of Kansas farmers was on display again this week, when some in Harper County delayed harvesting their own crops to help an ailing 85-year-old neighbor. The harvest Wednesday on Jim Wene's farm was necessary after he was found lying on his floor at home a few weeks ago. He was hospitalized for more ...

11 years ago
The Liberty Bell 7 space capsule is on its way from the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson to Germany. The Mercury space capsule used by Gus Grissom in 1961 was moved out of the Cosmosphere Wednesday to the museum's SpaceWorks division. Once it's prepared for movement, the capsule will be taken to a Houston port, and then ...

11 years ago
Visitors will be allowed to bring concealed guns into the Kansas Statehouse beginning in July unless legislative leaders intervene. Top lawmakers were reviewing the issue at a meeting Thursday. If they don't act this month, holders of concealed carry permits will be able to enter the building with their weapons. The Republican-dominated Legislature enacted a law last ...

11 years ago
A new residence hall at Kansas State University is being named to honor Jon Wefald, the university's president from July 1986 to June 2009. The university says Wefald Hall will be the first residence hall built on the school's main campus since Haymaker Hall in 1967. Construction is scheduled to begin in September, with the building ...

11 years ago
The winter wheat harvest is picking up over a big chunk of Kansas. The industry group Kansas Wheat reports farmers were cutting Wednesday all across southern Kansas and a across a central swath extending almost to the Nebraska border. Group spokesman Marsha Boswell says growers in northeast and northwest Kansas have not yet begun harvesting, but farmers ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Board of Regents is raising tuition and fees at state universities this fall by as much as 5.7 percent for some students. The board approved proposals Wednesday from the six state universities and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. But the regents said increases in the tuition ...

11 years ago
A Salina teen is in custody on drug charges. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 17-year-old Quintavian Hill was arrested after police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in his vehicle Tuesday evening during a stop for a traffic violation in the 600 block of West Crawford. Police say a traffic officer noticed the strong odor of marijuana coming ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a couple of vehicle burglaries. Police report that someone entered an unlocked 2006 Dodge Caravan that was parked in a drive in the 2500 block of Angus during the overnight hours between Monday and Tuesday, and stole numerous items. The owner told officers her Louis Vuitton purse valued at $1,300 plus a ...

12 years ago
A single vehicle crash in a construction zone on Interstate 70 in Dickinson County slowed traffic Wednesday morning. According to the Kansas Department of Transportation, shortly after 8:00 Wednesday morning a semi tractor-trailer lost control and went off the highway in the work zone on I-70 near the Jeep Road Interchange. Damaged guardrail was removed ...

12 years ago
Counterfeit bills are found in two recent bank deposits. Salina Police report that a counterfeit $20 bill was discovered by staff at the Sunflower Bank branch on North Santa Fe on Tuesday. The fake bill was used to purchase food at Burger King on E. Iron. Sunflower Bank employees on South Ohio also discovered a counterfeit $100 ...