11 years ago
Salina City Commissioners Monday evening denied a request by Salina Regional Health Center to demolish the former St. John's Hospital facility. Previously, Back in December of last year, Salina's Heritage Commission approved plans to demolish the buildings, agreeing that restoring them would be too costly. The issue then had to come before the city commission for ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court is deliberating whether to allow same-sex marriage licenses even as the federal courts have ruled same-sex marriages are allowed in the state. Kansas justices met privately Monday to review a petition from Attorney General Derek Schmidt to block the licenses until a final judicial ruling on the constitutionality of the state's gay ...

11 years ago
Attorneys for a Kansas man accused with plotting a suicide bombing at a Wichita airport are asking a judge to order the government to disclose whether mass surveillance first led authorities to the avionics technician. The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment Monday on the latest court filing in the case of Terry Loewen, an avionics ...

11 years ago
A state agency acknowledges it sent out a news release shortly before November's election that incorrectly claimed poverty in Kansas had declined under Gov. Sam Brownback's administration. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that when the Kansas Department of Children and Families was made aware of the inaccurate information, it did not issue a revised statement to the ...

11 years ago
An effort to to encourage kindness is underway in Salina this week. Leadership Salina, a project of the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce and Greater Salina Community Foundation, is a program to develop leaders who will have the skills and capacities to move our community forward. As a part of the class, members have the ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating after a deposit was stolen from a Salina sandwich shop. Staff at Subway located at 2230 N. 9th, contacted police after an audit revealed that a cash deposit of $850 did not reach the bank on October 20th. Subway called police on November 12th about the incident.

11 years ago
Police report a vehicle was stolen from the 200 block of North Kansas sometime between Saturday at 6pm and Sunday morning at 6:15am. The owner told officers she may have left the keys in the 2007 Ford Freestyle 4-door hatchback that is valued at $5,000. The car has Kansas license plate CIY 909.   A Honda ATV ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a reported aggravated robbery after a gun is aimed at a man. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a 20-year-old male told officers he entered a house in the 1100 block of N. 5th Street on Thursday afternoon and was robbed at gunpoint. The victim says a suspect pointed a shotgun at ...

11 years ago
Four more earthquakes were reported in south-central Kansas during the weekend. No serious injuries or damage was reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says the largest quake was a 3.8-magnitude earthquake that was centered northwest of Anthony in Harper County early Saturday. Two 3.1-magnitude quakes hit just northeast of Anthony on Sunday, one about 3 a.m. and ...

11 years ago
Wichita State University officials will hold a campus safety forum after a woman was beaten, sexually assaulted and set on fire near campus. The university's vice president for student affairs says that campus officials are horrified by the Friday night attack in Fairmount Park. He says an open forum will be held at 11:30 a.m. on ...

11 years ago
About 170 Kansas National Guard from a battalion based in Iola will deploy next year to west Africa to help fight Ebola. The state announced Sunday that soldiers from the 891st Engineer Battalion Headquarters will help build medical facilities in west Africa. They will leave next spring and be deployed for about six months, with the ...