11 years ago
A southern Kansas woman has been placed on a year of supervised probation for a texting-while-driving crash that left another driver dead. The Pratt Tribune reports that 36-year-old Jennifer Dale, of Preston, must also pay a $1,000 fine under the sentence she received Wednesday. Dale pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of vehicular homicide in the ...

11 years ago
The latest government forecast on Kansas crop production is painting a far rosier picture than had been anticipated for most fall crops just a month ago. The National Agricultural Statistics Service predicted Thursday that Kansas growers would bring in 578 million bushels of corn this season. That figure is 14 percent above last year's production. Higher yields ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court will hold a hearing next week on a petition by the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate to get his name removed from the November ballot. The court on Thursday scheduled arguments on Democrat Chad Taylor's petition for 9 a.m. Tuesday. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said in a two-page order that the court was ...

11 years ago
A Salina public art sculpture wins a major award. According to Salina Arts & Humanities, "Dawn's Silver Lining" has received the 2014 Juror's Choice CODAaward for the Public Spaces category. "Dawn's Silver Lining" is the large-scale public art work on South Ninth Street designed by artist Barbara Grygutis. It was installed in the Fall of 2012. The ...

11 years ago
The attorney representing a convicted child molester has urged the Kansas Supreme Court to take a fresh look at the state's criminal offender registry because social media has made the Internet the new town square for public shaming. Attorney Chris Joseph said during oral arguments Thursday that the world has changed dramatically since 2003, when ...

11 years ago
A 2006 Ford F250, owned by Greenfield Contractors of Salina was reported stolen. Police say the vehicle had been parked in the company's lot located at 2775 Arnold, when employees discovered the truck was not there. Staff told officers the keys had not been left inside the vehicle which is valued at $20,000. Police report the truck was ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University is restricting travel of university-sponsored students, faculty and staff to several African countries affected by the Ebola virus. The university said in a letter Wednesday to the Kansas State community that it will deny university-sponsored travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which have been placed on a federal travel alert list. ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary and theft at Salina Speedway. An employee told deputies he noticed a gate on Wednesday that appeared to be tampered with, and then saw a lock was broken at the race facility at 2841 S. Burma Road. Deputies discovered a door had been forced open on a storage ...

11 years ago
Westar Energy has agreed to delay a request for a rate increase related to nuclear power plant upgrades as part of an agreement approved by a state commission. The Kansas Corporation Commission on Tuesday approved a plan that would allow Westar to receive about $3.5 million in revenue related to costs that haven't been recovered ...

11 years ago
The Salina Fire Department Thursday morning paused to remember the events of the September 11th terrorist attacks. A crowd, including a large group of Salina Police Officers, gathered in front of Salina Fire Station #1 to be a part of the event. The fire department honor guard anchored the ceremony, marching out to the flagpole, ...

11 years ago
The state's prisoner review board has denied parole for a man convicted of beating to death a Kansas elementary school teacher in 1990. The Kansas Prisoner Review Board on Wednesday decided to deny parole until September 2017 for 42-year-old Peter Spencer. Spencer pleaded no-contest to first-degree murder when he was 18 years old. He was convicted of ...