11 years ago
A bag tossed onto the roof of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Joplin contained incendiary material in what police are calling a failed arson attempt. Surveillance video from the facility shows a person dressed in a hooded sweatshirt approach the back of the building around midnight Wednesday and throw the bag onto the roof. The Joplin Globe ...

11 years ago
Animals at Rolling Hills Zoo, including an ailing kangaroo, were blessed Saturday afternoon. The Very Rev. Benjamin Thomas, Th.D. of Christ Episcopal Cathedral, traveled through the zoo performing blessings on animals, and their keepers. Father Thomas began with the big cats, moved to the primates, rhinos, and giraffes, before ending with the penguins. Along the way, ...

11 years ago
A man standing outside his vehicle after hitting a deer late Friday night is hit and killed by another vehicle. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 32-year-old Boe Keesling of Lyons was standing on the road outside of his disabled SUV after he hit a deer. A car came upon the scene, and hit both the ...

11 years ago
A Salina man has been convicted of first degree murder and other charges in the abuse death of his girlfriend's 14 month old son. A jury returned the verdict against 35 year old Antonio Brown on Friday - two years to the day after Clayden Urbanek died of what doctors at a Wichita hospital called some ...

11 years ago
The federal shutdown has already furloughed 772 members of the Kansas National Guard, and the Adjutant General's Department says 263 civilians who support the Guard will be furloughed as well. Friday's announcement says the civilians are state employees whose jobs are funded by the federal government. The adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, said 139 ...

11 years ago
A jury in western Kansas has convicted a 27-year-old Minnesota man on charges related to human trafficking. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office says in a release that a Logan County jury on Thursday convicted Preston Sanders, of St. Paul, Minn., of transporting a person under 18 knowing that person would be used for sex. ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has reversed a state agency's decision to issue a permit to construct a new coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas. Friday's unanimous decision by the justices is a setback for Sunflower Electric Power Corp. in its plans to build a second plant near Holcomb. The justices ruled that the Kansas Department ...

11 years ago
A man walking across the country with a goat to raise money for a Kenyan charity is hitting the halfway point of his journey. The Salina Journal  reports that Steve Wescott set off on in May from the Space Needle in Seattle. Now, he's crossing through Kansas with his pack goat as he makes his way ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is facing a sex charge in connection with a case involving a 14-year-old girl. Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that 22-year-old Jerry M. Dix, 2652 Belmont, was arrested on a charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. He is accused of having consensual sex with the 14-year-old, who gave ...

11 years ago
A guest at Salina's La Quinta Inn - is now staying at the Saline County Jail after an incident in the hotel's lobby. Police say alcohol played a role in the events that led to the arrest of 57-year-old Vasco Vasconellos, of Kailua, Hawaii Thursday evening. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, officers were called to the La ...

11 years ago
An early morning truck fire shuts down I-135 for a short time Friday. The Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that a semi-trailer driving southbound early Friday morning around 5am caught fire - destroying it's contents of 41,500-pounds of processed pork bellies. Multiple rural fire districts responded to the scene about 2-miles south of Water Well ...