11 years ago
A realtors association says home sales in Kansas in May were the highest in the state since 2007. The Kansas Association of Realtors says sales increased 14.2 percent in May, to 3,727 units sold to 3,265 in 2012. Nationwide sales rose 12.9 percent in May. The association's president, Steve McCullough, says another 3,418 sales were pending at ...

11 years ago
Salina City Commissioners vote to temporarily exempt the city from the Personal and Family Protection Act, which becomes law July 1st. Commissioners Monday voted to exempt Salina from the law through December 31st of this year. The new law allows concealed weapons in public buildings that do not have "adequate security". Generally, "adequate security" means airport-type ...

12 years ago
A former cadet leader accused of assaulting a younger student at a Kansas military school has struck a deal with prosecutors for a 45-day jail sentence. 18-year-old David J. Burke, of McLean, Va., entered an Alford plea Monday to a reduced charge of aggravated battery. Such a plea means he does not admit the act, but ...

12 years ago
The public is invited to attend the ribbon cutting celebration for Memorial Hospital, 511 NE 10th St in Abilene, this coming Saturday. The ceremony will be held under the hospital’s front canopy. Senator Jerry Moran will deliver remarks which will be followed by guided tours of the new building. Tours will be offered from approximately 9:45 ...

12 years ago
A Rice County woman admits to a cattle fraud scheme. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, 37-year-old Carrie L. Frederick of Sterling pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud. In her plea, Frederick admitted she embezzled money while she worked for Sellers Farms, Inc., a livestock feeding operation in Lyons. She caused money to be sent ...

12 years ago
Outgoing Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger admits she no longer fits into the state Republican party she has served for most of her life. Praeger, who is in her final term as insurance commissioner, favors abortion rights and gun control, and is a strong supporter of the new health insurance plan called Obamacare. All those positions ...

12 years ago
The trial for a former Fort Riley soldier charged with killing a Kansas National Guard member on New Year's Day in 2012 has been delayed for at least one day. Jury selection for the first-degree murder trial of 26-year-old Daniel Parker was scheduled to begin Monday in Riley County District Court. The trial was delayed because ...

12 years ago
A former middle school counselor has pleaded not guilty to having sex with a boy younger than 14. Thirty-two-year-old Brooke Dinkel, a former counselor for Smoky Valley Middle School, was bound over for trial Monday. She faces 10 counts of rape and 10 counts of aggravated criminal sodomy. Her trial was scheduled for Oct. 14. The boy ...

12 years ago
A convicted child sex predator will have to wait another month before learning how much he must pay the 9-year-old Kansas girl he used to produce pornography. Monday's restitution hearing for 50-year-old Philip Andra Grigsby, of Marquette, has been continued to July 15 to give attorneys more time to resolve questions about insurance payments. U.S. District Judge ...

12 years ago
Officials Monday morning celebrated a local company's contribution to improving Salina streets. Bergkamp Industries manufactured the first ever continuous micro surfacing paver, and still manufactures it. Company Operating Officer Bill Cooper tells KSAL News that the technology makes it possible to maintain roads with a minimum investment. The process allows a protective coat to be overlayed on ...

12 years ago
Still not found is the second perpetrator to an $8,000 radiator robbery. On June 22, the Roudy Busch salvage yard loacted on 1849 W North was broken into and robbed for six truck radiators. Detained by police is Steven Smith; 45, one of the men connected to the robbery whom after acquiring the radiators sold them ...