11 years ago
A 27-year-old Hutchinson man who sexually assaulted a 4-month-old girl has attacked a Reno County prosecutor while appealing his life sentence. The attack happened Wednesday while Michael Sherman was objecting to being sentenced under Jessica's Law. The statute mandates a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years for adults convicted of certain ...

11 years ago
An area bridge over Interstate 70 is set to be demolished. According to the Kansas Department of Transportation, plans call for the removal and replacement of the I-70 / K-43 Bridge in Dickinson County. Beginning next week on Wednesday the bridge will be demolished and removed while traffic passes by the work zone using the interchange ...

11 years ago
He parked his truck at the Montana-Idaho line and stepped out to an open valley, filled with sun. He sat out by his truck and watched as Bald Eagles soared in the open air for hours. He was soon joined by other drivers, strangers, who in turn took their places next to him just to ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Department of Education wants to study a proposal to make it easier for out-of-state teachers to become licensed in Kansas. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that a national organization of state education agency officials issued a report listing 10 recommendations for how states could improve the teaching profession. One of those calls for allowing reciprocity ...

11 years ago
A Salina organization is in need of a little volunteer help this Saturday. The Noon Network and Salina AM AMBUCS are ready to install the first fully integrated playground in the country at Coronado Elementary School. On Saturday the organizations will join efforts with 450 community volunteers to assemble this playground under the professional direction of ...

11 years ago
A crash involving a truck and a tractor sends two people to the hospital Tuesday evening. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 34-year-old Donald Base was driving a pickup truck east on K-18 Highway. He rear-ended a tractor that was also headed east. Base and a 4-year-old passenger were both transported to Ottawa County Health Center. Troopers ...

11 years ago
A record number of Kansans applied for permits to carry concealed handguns during the recently ended Fiscal Year. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's Office, they received 25,340 applications for concealed carry permits between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013. This number was more than double the previous fiscal-year record of 12,408 permit applications ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary. Officers were called to the 300 block of E. Claflin, after the homeowner returned to find that his house had been broken into and electronics were stolen. Police say someone shattered a basement window to gain entry sometime at noon between July 4th and 1pm on the 6th. ...

11 years ago
Finney County authorities say a freelance photographer working for National Geographic was arrested and briefly detained after he shot pictures of a feedlot near Garden City while on a paraglider. George Steinmetz, of Glenn Ridge, N.J., and his paraglider instructor, Wei Zhang, of Beijing, China, were arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespass on June 28 after flying ...

11 years ago
A drive-thru window at a bank is chipped by gunfire. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, a thick, 3-foot by 5-foot window at the drive-thu teller at Capitol Federal Savings, 2550 S.9th, was hit by what police believe were 2 small caliber bullets. Police say someone fired at the window sometime between Monday evening at 5:30pm and Tuesday ...

11 years ago
It was no record, but it was hot in Salina on Tuesday. According to the National Weather Service, the temperature peaked at 108 during the 5:00 hour. It was just a degree off the record high of 109 for the date, set back in 1980. Later in the evening, thunderstorms rolling through the area dropped small hail ...