11 years ago
A Pomeranian dog is stolen from a Salina backyard. Police are investigating after a male dog was taken from a fenced in yard in the 3100 block of Foxboro on Tuesday afternoon between 4:30pm and 5pm. Police say two dogs were in the yard when the owner left - and returned 30-minutes later to find the gate ...

11 years ago
More counterfeit bills pop up around Salina. According to Sergeant James Feldman, a 62-year-old woman contacted police after her bank told her a $20 bill that she tried to deposit was a fake. The woman told officers she was given the counterfeit $20 in return for babysitting. Police also report a Salina woman got a counterfeit $10 ...

11 years ago
Hutchinson residents may soon be able to vote on a sales tax proposal that would help fund a $29 million expansion of the city's 62-year-old sports arena. A committee of community leaders asked the City Council on Tuesday to put the tax increase up for a public vote in April. The council didn't vote on the request ...

11 years ago
A fire damages two trucks at Johnson Sand Company. The Saline County Sheriff's Office says a block heater is suspected as the cause of a fire that began in a pickup truck around 2:15am Wednesday morning on the company's lot at 2100 E. Schilling Road. Rural Fire District #5 and the Salina Fire Department responded to the ...

11 years ago
Paul Perkins watched conference championship games around the country, but there was one that the UCLA running back simply could not bear to see. Watching the Pac-12 title game would have been too painful for Perkins, a reminder of the enormous opportunity wasted by the No. 14 Bruins. "I don't get over any loss. I lost last ...

11 years ago
Kansas State record-setting wide receiver Tyler Lockett was one of 12 players added to the Reese’s Senior Bowl roster as the senior will participate in the most highly regarded collegiate all-star game next month. The Reese’s Senior Bowl has invited 110 players to fill the rosters of the North and South squads for this year’s game. ...

11 years ago
K-State wide receiver, and Abilene native Curry Sexton, is outstanding on and off the field. An All-Big 12 candidate at wide receiver and First Team Academic All-Big 12 performer, Kansas State senior Curry Sexton has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America Division I football team, the College Sports Information Directors of America One of 50 ...

11 years ago
A man's bizarre behavior prompts witnesses to call Salina Police. Officers found 42-year-old Daryl L. Knox dressed only in a pair of pants, rolling on the street and screaming while his 4-year-old son stood nearby. Police say Knox was on the ground in the 200 block of E. Republic on Tuesday afternoon at about 2pm. Knox told police ...

11 years ago
K-State Nation is heading to San Antonio for the first time in 16 years as Kansas State Athletics Director John Currie announced today that the 11th-ranked Wildcats have accepted an invitation to play No. 14 UCLA in the 2015 Valero Alamo Bowl on January 2. The game, one of the most widely watched and attended of ...

11 years ago
A homeless amputee has lost nearly everything he owned — including his prosthetic legs — after a candle he was using to stay warm started a fire in a Topeka storage facility. The blaze, reported at 12:42 a.m. Tuesday, caused $135,000 in damage at AAA Self Storage. A local advocate for the homeless says the man ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating after a student found a handgun magazine containing bullets on an elementary school playground in a Kansas City suburb. A Blue Valley School District spokeswoman says the child found the .45-caliber magazine with eight bullets during recess on Tuesday. The student brought the magazine to a teacher, who alerted authorities. Officers from Leawood and ...