8 years ago
Westar Energy crews are responding to a call for help as Hurricane Irma moves toward Florida. About 40 Westar line crews and support staff hit the road on Thursday, headed to Florida. According to Westar, Florida Power & Light reached out to other utilities in anticipation of the storm. Gathered from all over the Westar service ...

8 years ago
A man and woman wanted in connection to a beating at a Salina motel last month were found driving the victim's car in Wichita. Deputies with the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office arrested 36-year-old Robert Roberts and 21-year-old Angel Adams on Wednesday in east Wichita after investigators in Salina shared surveillance photos of the two. Police Captain Paul ...

8 years ago
An argument between two women drivers ends with an arrest after death threats were made and a full can of soda was thrown through a window. Salina Police arrested 26-year-old Karen Luna on Wednesday evening after an incident in 600 block of N. 7th around 7pm. Police say Luna drove past a parked car where 34-year-old Tina ...

8 years ago
U.S. Senator Jerry Moran has a busy Labor Day Weekend, traveling to multiple countries to meet with Kansas soldiers. According to Moran's Office, the Senator traveled with Acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy to Poland, Germany and Afghanistan to meet with U.S. Army soldiers, to assess their efforts in the European Deterrence Initiative, and to ...

8 years ago
Fort Riley will hosts the Fallen Hero Run this weekend. The run is to honor and remember military members who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in support and defense of the United States. The run, which starts and ends at Riley’s Conference Center, is this Saturday morning at 9. It is open to the public. Registration starts ...

8 years ago
Three Kansas Wing, Civil Air Patrol volunteers returned home to Kansas this week after spending about a week in Texas. According to the organization, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Davis, 1st Lieutenant Brad Hawthorne, and 1st Lieutenant Tom Page, all from the Wichita area, flew to Texas on August 31st and supported a mission which has exceeded 291 ...

8 years ago
An Army veteran from Reno County was sentenced Wednesday to three years on probation and ordered to pay back $70,000 in benefits he received by pretending to be blind. The man’s ex-wife was sentenced to a year on probation for helping with the scheme. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, 62-year-old Billy J. Alumbaugh of Turon, ...

8 years ago
A dog that had been missing from Ottawa County ever since his owner was found murdered, has been found alive and well in California. On Saturday, Aug. 12, Matthew Schoshke’s body was discovered by a family member in his Tescott area home. Schoshke’s Ford F150 pickup truck was missing from the scene, as was his dog ...

8 years ago
Why We Fight, a documentary film by Eugene Jarecki, will be shown on Monday, September 11, at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home. This free public program begins at 7 p.m. in the Visitors Center The 98-minute film was produced by the Eisenhower Project, with support from Sony Pictures Classics and BBC Storyville. It was ...

8 years ago
Salina Police wrapped up a nearly two year investigation on Tuesday in to an aggravated burglary. The incident occurred on October 9, 2015, when Elizabeth Weeks was at her home at 841 1/2 S. 5th St in Salina. Weeks was with her three-year-old son when a female acquaintance came by to borrow a vacuum.  When the acquaintance ...

8 years ago
The Salina Public Library is answering a call to action by collecting funds to help hurricane victims. According to the organization, they will be donating two weeks of all fines collected Wednesday, September 6 through Wednesday, September 20th. The fine funds will be donated to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. “We want to do our ...