12 years ago
Tears fell as families and loved ones embraced their returning soldiers this afternoon at the Salina Army Aviation Support Facility. Like magnets being held close together, waiting to connect, the soldiers and families sat patiently for the welcome home closing ceremony to end. The commanding officer stepped out from the other soldiers near him, about-faced and saluted ...

12 years ago
The Saline County Commission unanimously decides to determine exactly how much it will cost to repair the existing Salina / Saline County Health Department. A structure problem with the roof caused the agency to close over a year ago, on May 31, 2012. Since that time, city and county commissioners have been trying to come up ...

12 years ago
Children around Salina gathered this morning at the Kenwood Cove water park in order to take part in a world record breaking swim lesson. Last year, 16 countries on 5 continents simultaneously took part in the swim lesson which broke the Guiness World Record by hosting 24,800 children. Over 700 pools this year took part in ...

12 years ago
A video game controller and coin collection are stolen from a Salina apartment. Police are looking for a known suspect after Marcus Lundgren told authorities that an Xbox game controller and games were removed from his apartment in the 500 block of E. Crawford. Police say the suspect allegedly stole a Samsung Proclaim Galaxy mobile phone, several ...

12 years ago
A stolen car is recovered after a number of warehouses are burglarized. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, 3 different buildings on York Street were broken into sometime between Sunday night at 9pm and Monday morning at 8am. Police say Frazier Brothers Construction of Salina uses the three warehouses at 1002, 1006 and 1012 York to store various ...

12 years ago
A former Kansas agriculture secretary has joined the Land Institute, which seeks to create a new sustainable agriculture that minimizes environmental damage. Josh Svaty, a farmer from Ellsworth County, former state lawmaker and state agriculture secretary from 2009 through 2011, joined the Land Institute on Monday as a vice president. He'll work on public policy issues, ...

12 years ago
State corrections officials are looking for a minimum security inmate who escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility. The Kansas Department of Corrections says 43-year-old Paul D. Cohagen was discovered missing from the prison Monday evening. Cohagen is a white male with hazel eyes and brown hair. He's 6-feet tall and weighs about 160 pounds. He was sentenced for ...

12 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A new report estimates that just 11 percent of the Kansas winter wheat is now ripe, with harvest in much of southern Kansas just days away. The Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that last year by this late in the season, 97 percent of the crop had ripened. The average for ...

12 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Lawrence officials are taking aim at a bed bug problem that's emerging at apartment complexes with new rules allowing the city to tell people how and when to exterminate the critters. City code enforcement manager Brian Jiminez says bed bugs are becoming an issue at apartment complexes because of the large turnover ...

12 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the state's proof-of-citizenship requirement for new voters can still be enforced after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a similar Arizona law. Kobach says the Kansas law differs enough from Arizona's version that the high court's Monday decision doesn't apply to Kansas. County election officials in Kansas said they were ...

12 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has asked for an investigation into an immigration reform protest held outside his Wyandotte County home. Kobach said Monday he has contacted state and Wyandotte County officials seeking an investigation into the protest held Saturday outside his Piper home. Event organizer Sunflower Community Action says about 300 participants chanted and left ...