10 years ago
An almost four month long arson investigation leads to the arrest of a Salina man. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 40-year-old Jason Wooster was taken into custody on Friday on a charge of arson. The arrest stems from a house fire on March 29th that investigators say was set intentionally with accelerant at 155 ...

10 years ago
A 16-year-old student at St. Francis Academy is now in juvenile detention in Junction City after an altercation with staff. Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that staff member Ronda Rees confronted the boy after she saw him throwing chairs in a third story dormitory at the school which is located at 5097 W. ...

10 years ago
A study shows that the Lawrence area had several of the top accident sites along the Kansas Turnpike. The 2010 Long-Term Needs Study compiled for the Kansas Turnpike Authority shows that six of the top nine accident spots on the 236-mile turnpike were in the Lawrence area, and two were on the I-70 stretch approaching Kansas ...

10 years ago
A 30-year-old woman has been arrested after Wichita police say she assaulted a police horse and two officers. The woman was arrested early Sunday morning. According to police spokesman Sgt. Bob Gulliver, officers were taking a person into custody for an unrelated disturbance in Old Town when the woman tried to interfere. Gulliver said the horse, which ...

10 years ago
For those not using the online process, it's enrollment time this week for USD 305. If you do not enroll online, you will need to enroll at your school building on July 28. Please be aware that enrollment at a building on July 28 will also use the computer-based, online process. Printed materials are no longer available ...

10 years ago
Some Kansas growers are carrying out experiments they helped design, evaluating questions such as how different varieties, seeding rates, nutrients and other variables work in the fields on their farms. It's a partnership with Kansas State University under a program launched last season. About 20 farmers are participating in the program. University agricultural experts help the farmers ...

10 years ago
Dodge City police say they have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a Garden City man. Police say the 32-year-old victim was found dead Saturday of multiple gunshot wounds. The Dodge City Daily Globe reports the victim's body was found in an alley behind the newspaper's office. The victim's name has not been released. A 26-year-old ...

10 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's push for an investigation into whether tissue from aborted fetuses is being sold commercially is the latest episode in a long history of moves against Planned Parenthood by Kansas abortion opponents. That history includes investigations by prosecutors and a grand jury. The group's clinic in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park ...

10 years ago
Hutchinson residents who went to the city's law enforcement center during a tornado earlier this month were allowed to stand in the lobby but couldn't go to the basement. The Hutchinson News reports Reno County officials say no official public tornado shelter exists in Hutchinson because of liability and safety concerns. Reno County Emergency Management officials say ...

10 years ago
A man who gunned down a Topeka police officer last year will spend the rest of his life in prison. Ross Preston Lane was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for the September 2014 death of 40-year-old Cpl. Jason Harwood. Lane pleaded guilty in July to capital murder. Harwood was shot three times after stopping ...

10 years ago
A judge has ruled that Galena's mayor and six other city officials accused of misusing public funds will be tried together. Mayor Dale Oglesby, five city council members and a former council member were indicted in June by a grand jury after the council authorized paying $100,000 in city money to settle a private lawsuit against ...