11 years ago
Officials celebrated the beginning of a major renovation of the Salina Bicentennial Center with a ground breaking event at the venue Thursday morning. Salina Mayor Aaron Housholter spoke, as did Bi-Center General Manager Ron Rideout, and John Frew the president of Frew Development Group, the company doing the renovation. Frew said that he has worked on many ...

11 years ago
Police continue to search for a man who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars of collectible comic books from a northwest Wichita store. Police say the man broke into the store on Nov. 19 and made several trips while he carried away about 40 items such as Avenger and Hulk comic books. Mark Rowland, owner of River ...

11 years ago
Police recover a stolen laptop and make an arrest in a burglary investigation. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 35-year-old Jack Urbanek of Salina was arrested on Wednesday in connection to a residential burglary that occurred in early October. Police say Urbanek entered a home in the 300 block of Woodlawn and stole a Dell laptop ...

11 years ago
Students from Salina, Bennington, and Ellsworth are among a group of Kansas State University Students that have been selected to join cancer research teams. Salina freshman Sarah McConnell, Bennington sophomore Adam Schieferecke, and Ellsworth sophomore Noah Trapp are all among the students chosen. According to the school, the Johnson Cancer Research Center has selected 46 undergraduate ...

11 years ago
After a couple of days of fog and drizzle, a combination of snow and thunderstorms is on the horizon. According to the National Weather Service, a warming trend is expected before a storm system arrives late in the weekend. Clouds, drizzle, and fog are possible daily through Sunday. High temperatures will mainly be in the 50s ...

11 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback isn't ruling out pay increases for government workers despite projected budget shortfalls. Brownback said during an interview Wednesday that he wouldn't say yet that the state's budget problems will prevent raises for state employees. He said such decisions usually are made in the spring at the end of the Legislature's annual 90-day session. ...

11 years ago
A southwest Kansas sex offender has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a child porn case. Forty-eight-year-old Wade Dewey of Syracuse was sentenced Wednesday in Wichita. He previously pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography. Dewey says he downloaded images and videos from the Internet in August 2013 while ...

11 years ago
A man is charged with taking refunds due to Nigerian graduate students who were recruited to attend Pittsburg State University. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that 61-year-old Michael Muoghalu of Pittsuburg faces one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Muoghalu is accused of taking more than $148,000 in refunds due to the Nigerian students ...

11 years ago
A Kansas City woman has been charged with felony animal abuse and animal neglect after her dog was abused so severely that his eyes had to be surgically removed. Jackson County prosecutors charged 36-year-old Kimberly Anderson on Wednesday in the Nov. 9 attack on the Tibetan spaniel named Roadrunner. A witness says Anderson threw the small ...

11 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says he's working on proposals for changing how Kansas distributes aid to public schools and for bolstering the pension system for teachers and government workers. But the Republican governor provided no details during an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. He said only that his administration is researching options on school funding and ...

11 years ago
Hutchinson police have charged a man who they say shot at officers. Thirty-one-year-old Jason Mendoza was arrested Tuesday afternoon and taken to the Reno County jail. Police say three officers were working an unrelated case on Monday when Mendoza shot at them with a handgun and ran away. No officers were injured. Mendoza is charged with three counts ...