11 years ago
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) - Leaders of the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley will honor fallen soldiers during Memorial Day observances at the northeast Kansas post. Monday's event will include the laying of a wreath in honor of the soldiers buried at the cemetery near the main post complex. Major General Paul Funk, commander of the ...

11 years ago
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) - The National Weather Service says a tornado that traveled seven miles across rural western Kansas during the weekend was an EF4, with winds of 165 to 185 miles per hour. The report from the agency's Dodge City office follows a survey of the tornado's path Saturday night in Pawnee County. An EF4 ...

11 years ago
A woman suspected of being involved at a high level in a Los Angeles gang is arrested in Salina. Late Wednesday morning officers from the Salina Police Department along with deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, arrested Cecilia Virgen-DeLeon. Virgen-DeLeon was arrested at a home at 701 Carriage Circle in Salina where she has been ...

11 years ago
A missing vehicle prompts a search at a Salina dealership. A recent inventory at Conklin Cars, 2700 S. 9th revealed that an automobile remains unaccounted for. Staff at the dealership contacted police after realizing a 2013 Toyota Prius, that records show was delivered to Salina on March 1st, cannot be found on the lot. Conklin called police on ...

11 years ago
Multiple power tools are stolen from a construction project inside a Salina home. Police say someone broke a small glass window adjacent to a door to enter a home in the 2300 block of Pinecrest, sometime between Monday night at 6:30pm and Tuesday morning at 7:15am. Once inside someone stole numerous power tools owned by Lee Haworth ...

11 years ago
A concerned citizen's call - leads to child endangerment charges for a Salina couple. Officers were called to the corner of Osage and Ponca on Monday morning around 10am, after two young children were observed wandering around. Police say a a 3-year old, wearing only a diaper and 5-year-old sibling, were walking around with no supervision. The children ...

11 years ago
Wichita's McConnell Air Force Base has been selected to be the main operating base for the Air Force's new KC-46A air refueling tanker. Members of the Kansas congressional delegation issued a joint statement Wednesday announcing the Air Force decision. The aircraft will replace the aging KC-135 fleet flown by crews for the past 50 years. According to ...

11 years ago
Riley County officials say five school boys are suspected of posting pornographic images of at least 10 juvenile girls online. County police spokesman Matthew Droge said the number of girls whose photos were posted could increase as the investigation continues. The boys are students in middle and high school. They allegedly posted the pictures in the last ...

11 years ago
Civil engineers are giving Kansas' infrastructure a grade of C minus. The regional chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers released the letter grade Wednesday. It's part of a report card that evaluated the state's aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, levees, railroads, roads and schools. Besides the state's overall grade, each sub-category also received ...

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A former Internal Revenue Service agent has been spared any prison time after admitting she was paid for meetings with taxpayers that never occurred. The U.S. Attorney's office says Becky L. Book, of Pittsburg, was sentenced on Tuesday to two years of probation and ordered to pay restitution of about $26,450. Book pleaded guilty in February to ...

11 years ago
A deputy at a central Kansas jail is accused of having illegal sexual relations with a female inmate and bribing or intimidating two others. Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson announced the charges Tuesday against 30-year-old Jonathan Diaz. Henderson says he asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to get involved after learning of the allegations two weeks ...