10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas will specifically prohibit nurse-midwives from performing abortions or administering abortion-inducing drugs, starting next year. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill Friday that includes the prohibition while rewriting laws regulating multiple health care professions. The changes will allow nurse-midwives to practice independently within a limited scope of care starting next year instead ...

10 years ago
Blowing dust, causing near-zero visibility, caused a couple of multiple vehicle crashes along Interstate 70 in Geary County west of Junction City late Friday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, one of the crash scenes involved 6 vehicles. The other involved 4 vehicles. Traffic was backed up for nearly 10 miles in both directions as first ...

10 years ago
The man accused of firing the fatal shot that killed a 17-year-old Salina South High School student last spring has been found guilty of 1st degree murder. At the end of a trial that lasted a full week, a jury Friday evening returned guilty verdicts on all charges that 23-year-old Maceo Palacio was facing. Those charges ...

10 years ago
Commercial flights in and out of the Salina Regional Airport will soon resume, and officials gathered there Friday morning to celebrate. Great Lakes Airlines will start nonstop flights from the Salina Regional Airport to the Denver International Airport on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Senator Jerry Moran announced the start of Denver flights this morning during a ribbon ...

10 years ago
An elderly woman in Salina who thought that she won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes instead has been scammed. Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that the woman, who is in her 80s, received a phone call this week telling her that she had won the sweepstakes. In order to receive her prize, the woman was ...

10 years ago
A Salina man has been arrested after allegedly setting a house on fire, and then stealing a truck to leave the scene. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that 38-year-old John Miller was arrested in connection with the case Friday morning. At 8:58 in the evening two girls passing by observed a fire inside a home at ...

10 years ago
Salina Police have made an arrest in connection with a stabbing death on Thursday. According to police, on Thursday morning at 9:34 officers were sent to the area of Roach Street and Max Avenue reference a stabbing. Upon arrival they found Loan Nguyen-Lovelace, 43, of 745 Max Avenue, with a stab wound to her chest. Nguyen-Lovelace was ...

10 years ago
A former Salina Deputy Police Chief will be the new top cop in Abilene. The City of Abilene announced in a media release Thursday that that Mike Marshall will serve as Police Chief of the Abilene Police Department. Marshall has over thirty years of experience in law enforcement with the Salina Police Department. His career included ...

10 years ago
A long-time Salina-based company is being sold to a company in Japan. Employees at Great Plains Manufacturing were notified Thursday that the company is being sold to Kubota U.S.A. Inc. Kubota Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Great Plains Manufacturing. Once final, the purchase will expand the company’s long-time partnership with ...

10 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback made a stop in Salina Thursday to ceremoniously sign two bills into law. The governor signed a bill that modernizes, and keeps the STAR Bond program alive in Kansas. He signed a second law enforcement bill which will help the Kansas Highway Patrol retain, and hire new troopers. House Bill 2632:  Revising provisions ...

10 years ago
A woman who was stabbed during an incident in South Salina early Thursday morning has died. Salina Police say that at approximately 9:34 a.m. officers were sent to the area of Roach Street and Max Avenue in reference a stabbing. Upon arrival they found a woman in her 40s with a stab wound. She was treated ...