11 years ago
A day after the county expressed little interest in seeing a written proposal for a joint city-county health department, Salina City Commissioners met in a special meeting Wednesday afternoon and agreed to draft one. City commissioners voted to draft specific language of a plan for an interlocal agreement with the county to jointly operate the health ...

11 years ago
A former Solomon teacher pleads to sex charges. According to Dickinson County court officials, 28-year-old Amber Stroda on Wednesday pleaded to three felony counts of unlawful sexual relations. Stroda was arrested back in February of this year. She was accused of having sex with two different male Solomon High School students. The students at the time were ...

11 years ago
[caption id="attachment_2198" align="alignnone" width="300"] Brooks Garretson, 14, puts some finishing last touches on his handcrafted dinosaur sculpture. The sculpture has a chicken wire skeleton with a paper mache and gauze outer body. Nearly 100 hours went in to its creation.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2199" align="alignnone" width="300"] Stony Pony, a 13-year-old miniature horse stands by a towering combine outside ...

11 years ago
A Bonner Springs woman has filed the paperwork to run for the 2014 Kansas gubernatorial race, running as a Libertarian in a third-party challenge to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. Tresa McAlhaney announced Wednesday that she filed the necessary documents to form a committee with the state to begin her campaign. She is joined on the ticket ...

11 years ago
Two trucks are stolen from a car dealer's detail shop. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, one of the trucks has been recovered after thieves drove off with two Ford trucks from the Long McArthur Ford detail building at 2820 Foxborough, sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Police say the investigation is ongoing after a 2012, F150, ...

11 years ago
A Missouri couple is turning to the Tri Rivers Fair's talent contest in search of someone who might have what it takes to help save their four sons' lives. Tim and Maggie Murry are looking for bone marrow matches to help their sons fight a rare form of blood cancer called Diamond-Blackfan anemia. On ...

11 years ago
Three storage units are broken into on Copper Court. Police report that sometime between Sunday at 4pm and Monday at 8am, someone removed the locks on three storage units at Access Storage, 1640 Copper Court. Thieves did not remove any possessions from two of the units, but stole numerous items from a third. Police say a collection of ...

11 years ago
A day after the county rejected an offer of a joint city-county health department Salina City Commissioners call a special meeting. Saline County Commissioners reaffirmed late Tuesday afternoon that they do not want to enter into a new interlocal agreement with the City of Salina in regard to the operation of the Salina-Saline County Health Department. About ...

11 years ago
Cleanup continues at the El Dorado Reservoir where winds earlier this week caused a fuel spill and damaged several boats and docks at the Shady Creek Marina. El Dorado State Park manager Seth Turner said Tuesday that the fuel spill is contained and crews were pumping water from a houseboat that was largely under water ...

11 years ago
Kansas is leaving some of its poorest citizens uninsured. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the Affordable Care Act will make it possible—for the first time—for all Americans to have access to health care. But in reality, thousands of Kansans will be left out. That’s because the tax credits designed to help low-income families don’t apply to ...

11 years ago
Police say two alert employees caught and held a man who allegedly was trying to burglarize a Cargill plant in Topeka. Topeka police Sgt. Steve Roth says the employees saw the man break into a fenced-in area that holds heavy equipment on Tuesday night. When the employees ran into the area, the man was "messing with" ...