9 years ago
A suspected thief is pulled from the water after his getaway swim leaves him breathless. Saline County Undersheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that deputies called a fire rescue squad on Sunday evening around 8:35pm to save a suspect who was eluding officers. Deputies had responded to the area of the water-filled pit at Johnson Sand Company, ...

9 years ago
Fireworks complaint calls continue to drop in Salina as police and fire officials work to educate the public on safety. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, police received 127 calls to complain about fireworks being discharged between June 27th and July 4th. Officers wrote 8 citations - six for shooting fireworks outside the designated July 3- 4 ...

9 years ago
A 26-year-old Kansas man who climbed onto a roof to launch fireworks is dead after falling from atop his Topeka home. Christen Locke fell from the roof after he was injured by a firework just after midnight Tuesday morning. Topeka police Lt. Jennifer Cross says the call was originally reported as a fall but an investigation revealed ...

9 years ago
A south-central Kansas sheriff says a man who fell 120 feet while working on a wind turbine is expected to survive. Pratt County Sheriff Vernon Chinn says the worker was seriously injured during the tumble onto muddy terrain Sunday morning while he was repairing a blade on a wind generator near Pratt. Chinn says emergency responders ...

9 years ago
The producer of a 1970s movie about a gorilla trained in kung fu that fights its way across Wichita says the film might have been one big-name actor away from being a hit. Bob Walterscheid says "King Kung Fu" was intended to be a widely distributed comedy but instead became a movie that "most people look ...

9 years ago
A man who was considered to be armed and dangerous was caught by Salina Police Monday afternoon. John James Brown was being sought in connection with two weekend stabbings in Salina. According to Salina Police, John Brown was arrested at a home in southeast Saline County. Brown was arrested by the department's SWAT Team, with the ...

9 years ago
A Kansas agency and a University of Kansas center for mental health research are cutting ties. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://j.mp/299xIx1) the Center for Mental Health Research and Innovation at the University of Kansas declined to accept a contract offer Thursday from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The center says the contract would have ...

9 years ago
Bookstores serving students at the two largest universities in Kansas are closing, largely because of dwindling textbook sales. The Levin family owns the Jayhawk Bookstore in Lawrence near the University of Kansas and Varney's Book Store in Manhattan, where Kansas State is located. The family has announced the closure of both bookstores. Jeff Levin says Jayhawk Bookstore's ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A 31-year-old New Zealand woman has been pursuing charges in Kansas against a teenager she believes harassed her online. Rachel Gronback lives in Auckland, New Zealand, where she blogs about "fashion, online shopping and body positivity." Gronback said that when she started receiving inappropriate online sexual messages in November, she was able ...

9 years ago
A Wichita woman says she and her dog were out for a morning run when a coyote grabbed the dog and carried it away in its jaws. Shelley Duncan said that she was running near the Tallgrass Golf Course last week with her dog Gwenny, an Italian greyhound, a few feet behind her when the coyote ...

9 years ago
A 40-year-old woman has been sentenced to about 25 years in prison for killing a Lawrence woman in 2014. Angelica Kulp pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder and aggravated burglary in the stabbing death of 56-year-old Christine Kaplan. Kulp was sentenced Friday in Douglas County court. Kaplan, who was known to take in people in need ...