Kansas Senate Panel Considers Family Planning Tiered System
A Kansas Senate committee has considered legislation to make permanent a provision that would create a tiered system for family planning funds. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the bill would...
View ArticleDeadline Day For Kansas Budget
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Republican Gov. Sam Brownback faces decisions about whether to veto provisions in a bill designed to help Kansas balance its budget through June 2017. Brownback's deadline is...
View ArticleSalina Crime Stoppers 3-4-16
Between February 16th and February 18th, 2016, a theft occurred at 851 E. North. A white 20’ Carrier container trailer was taken. The following items were inside the trailer: • 2 Dewalt table saws and...
View ArticleSuspect Sought in Camper Theft
The Saline County Sheriff's Office has released a photo of a suspect's truck in connection to the theft of a $31,000 camper. Captain Roger Soldan says video from February 21st shows someone with a...
View ArticleWoman Threatened in Car
Salina Police are looking for a known suspect in a domestic battery case after a woman was choked. According to Captain Chris Trocheck, a 21-year-old female told officers her estranged boyfriend...
View ArticleSalina Police Log 3-4-16
Police are investigating a damage to property case after someone smashed the screen on a Red Box video case at McDonalds, 125 E. Diamond Drive, sometime Wednesday between 8am and 8pm. Police report a...
View ArticleRogers: TSA’s Plan B Not Acceptable
Citing budget concerns as a reason for not providing screening services at the Salina Regional Airport, the Transportation Security Administration has signaled their reluctance to work in Salina until...
View ArticleTrump Announces Saturday Kansas Event
Donald Trump will make a campaign stop in Wichita on Saturday. The Trump campaign announced Friday that it will be in Wichita for a "major rally" on Saturday, prior to the Kansas caucus. The...
View ArticleTwo Teams, One Fate
Salina Central's "Brickhouse" is filling up for tonight's cross city boys substate rivalry between the South Cougars and the Central Mustangs. Central students packed the parking lot early with a pre...
View ArticleNew Faces On Salina’s Most Wanted
The latest list of Salina’s Most Wanted is online. The first weekend of each month a new list of Salina’s Most Wanted is released. Those on the list this month are wanted for crimes that include sex...
View ArticleKansas Presidential Caucuses Could Be Rocky Soil For Leaders
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Both Democrats and Republicans are wondering whether their presidential caucuses in Kansas will be rocky soils for their front-runners. GOP leader Donald Trump was making an...
View ArticleRubio Jokes He’s Competing With Wichita State Basketball
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -Marco Rubio is taking quite a risk campaigning in Kansas a day ahead of the state's Republican presidential caucus: He's competing alongside Wichita State basketball. The Florida...
View ArticleKansas Man Gets Prison Time For Store Parking Lot Shooting
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison for the killing of his girlfriend in the parking lot of a home improvement store in Kansas City, Kansas. The...
View ArticleMan Gets Life in Prison in Fatal Kansas City Home Invasion
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 2011 home invasion that left one man dead. The Star newspaper reports that 30-year-old Garron T. Briggs...
View ArticleUsing old school funding system politically difficult
Data from the Kansas Department of Education indicates reverting to an old public education funding system that would be acceptable to the Kansas Supreme Court would hurt schools in suburban Kansas...
View ArticleKBI declines to investigate alleged Great Bend assault case
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will not take over the investigation of an alleged assault on a bus transporting the Great Bend boys swim team. Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir had asked the...
View ArticleTrump, Clinton Lose Big Locally
The two front runners from each respective party, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, each both lost big in Saline County in Saturday's Kansas Presidential Caucuses. Bernie Sanders...
View ArticleLiberty Taken By Force
The Salina Liberty got off to the best start possible in the franchise's first ever regular season game Saturday night at the Bicentennial Center. Liberty returner Jarrel Kelley took the opening...
View ArticleInmate Whose Arrest Ended Sheriff’s Career in Jail Again
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City man whose forced removal from a hospital in the 1980s led to a sheriff's downfall is back in jail. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a trooper arrested...
View ArticleScientists: Discovery of Young, Wild Black Carp Troubling
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Scientists say the discovery of two young black carp in a ditch connected to the Mississippi River is a troubling sign for native species in the river. Adult black carp have...
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