10 years ago
A Salina man is facing felony charges for lewd and lascivious behavior in a store's parking lot. Officers arrested 25-year-old Victor K. Kinderknecht for allegedly exposing himself to a group of females in the parking lot at Target, 2939 Market Place on Thursday afternoon around 4:30pm. The group which included a woman in her 40's, a 15-year ...

10 years ago
Plans for a renovated and revitalized Salina Downtown continue to progress. The vision includes multiple major projects in a 28 block area of downtown Salina that would redefine and revitalize it. A proposed field house recreation-center type project built through an even split of private and public money will get the ball rolling. Salina Mayor Jon ...

10 years ago
Between 10:00 PM on June 19, 2015 and 2:30 PM on June 20, 2015 an unsecured vehicle was entered in the 300 Block of S. 3rd. A HP Beats Special Edition 15” Touch Screen Laptop, Coolpad i-wireless cell phone, a tie dye color backpack, a military camouflage backpack, Xbox with 40 games and three Nintendo DS ...

10 years ago
The grandmother of a Kansas girl who was shot while riding in a car says the 5-year-old has died after surgery to remove her organs. Lily Nichols died Thursday afternoon at a Topeka hospital. The girl had been on life support since being shot late Monday night in Topeka. Police say she was in a child seat ...

10 years ago
Officials at the Kansas Wildlife Exhibit at Central Riverside Park say video surveillance cameras will be a part of upcoming exhibit upgrades following animal breakouts. Friends of the Kansas Wildlife Exhibit, a local nonprofit, met with Wichita Parks Foundation officials Thursday to discuss fundraising plans. Great Plains Nature Center director and exhibit overseer Jim Mason said recent ...

10 years ago
A 39-year-old registered sex offender from Lenexa has admitted videotaping women in restrooms at Johnson County Community College. Saysavat Bounyadeth on Thursday pleaded guilty in Johnson County District Court to three felony counts of breach of privacy. Bounyadeth previously was convicted for a December 2013 burglary in Olathe in which he stole underwear and lingerie from a ...

10 years ago
  The Salina Police Department is among several around Kansas and Missouri that helped in a prescription drug case that landed 23 people in federal prison. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, Federal prosecutors have wrapped up the prosecution of a former Lenexa, Kan., doctor accused of diverting prescription painkillers to a network of users and ...

10 years ago
Another person on the July list of Salina's Most Wanted has been arrested. The new list of Salina's Most Wanted went online Saturday, and by Thursday seven have been arrested. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, Rickey Roy is the latest person arrested from the list. He was wanted for felony drug crimes. The first weekend of ...

10 years ago
A long-delayed effort to build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower is gaining design approvals to potentially move forward. The project won approval Thursday in a 9-1 vote on final site and building plans at the National Capital Planning Commission. This was the second federal approval after the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approved the ...

10 years ago
The chancellor of the University of Kansas says her administration plans to respond this fall to recommendations from a university sexual assault task force. The Lawrence Journal-World  reports that Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little says her administration plans to respond this fall to the recommendations from the University of Kansas Sexual Assault Task Force. The task force, formed last ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is arrested for driving a stolen rental car from Indiana. Police report an officer on patrol ran the licence plate on a 2015 Nissan Sentra early Thursday morning to discover the vehicle had been reported stolen by Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. Police arrested 29-year-old Larry Martin of Salina for vehicle theft and ...