12 years ago
A call to police about a suspicious person in Wal-Mart's parking lot leads to the arrest of a Salina man. According to Captain Chris Trocheck, officers found 21-year-old Wesley Robertson in his pickup Tuesday afternoon around 12:13pm inhaling vapors from an aerosol spray can. Robertson was cited - and then arrested about 45-minutes later when Wal-Mart staff ...

12 years ago
Police evacuate a Salina pharmacy after a bomb threat on Tuesday. Employees at CVS Pharmacy at 681 S. Ohio contacted police after a male called in a bomb threat Tuesday afternoon just before 2:30pm. Two Salina Police patrol units and Salina Fire crews were on the scene as patrons and staff were evacuated. Nothing suspicious was found and ...

12 years ago
A voice familiar to radio listeners in Central Kansas for over a half-century is being remembered. 79-year-old Gary Houser, announcer on Salina Media Group Radio Station AM 1560 KABI in Abilene, died early Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle crash. According to Dickinson County Undersheriff James Swisher, Houser was driving his small pickup truck on Highway 40 headed ...

12 years ago
Kansas says its tax collections fell $21 million short of expectations in September. The lower-than-anticipated collections were disclosed Tuesday in the state Department of Revenue's monthly preliminary revenue report. The development could cause a short-term increase in the state's predicted budget shortfall of $238 million by July 2016. The department emphasized that even with overall taxes falling ...

12 years ago
A southern Kansas county was shaking after a pair of earthquakes were reported within hours of each other but apparently didn't cause any damage. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the first earthquake to hit Harper County was at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and was measured 3.3 on the Richter scale. The second temblor that hit the county ...

12 years ago
A former Salina city building official has been convicted in California of poisoning his wife to death 20-years ago. Jurors on Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court found 57-year-old Paul Curry guilty of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Curry killed his 50-year-old wife, Linda, to collect more than half a million dollars in life insurance and benefits after she died. Prosecutor Ebrahim ...

12 years ago
Salina Police have identified a suspect in a forgery case dating back to June. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, police were contacted on Monday about a phony check that was cashed at the Dillon's Grocery Store on E. Cloud on June 18th for the amount of $900. Captain Sweeney tells KSAL News that the check had letterhead ...

12 years ago
The animals at Rolling Hills Zoo will receive a special blessing this week. According to the zoo, on Saturday the Rev. Robert Nelson Smith, President and CEO of Saint Francis Community Services, will perform a blessing of the animals. Father Bobby will visit the tigers, apes, anteaters, aardvarks, camels, rhinos, giraffes, Andean bears, lions, the animals ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas is considering construction of $51 million residence hall to house an expected increase in international students. The university says the 500-bed residence hall would be built next to Oliver Hall. It would include a new dining center for the existing and new residence halls. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the school currently has ...

12 years ago
After three years of mostly fundraising and labor, the cabin in northern Kansas where the lyrics for "Home on the Range" were written will be officially rededicated this weekend. The cabin in Smith County was the home of Brewster Higley in the 1870s. While living there, he wrote a poem called "My Western Home," which ...

12 years ago
Botanica in Wichita has raised more than $1.5 million to install a Chinese garden, which is now under construction. Director Marty Miller says the garden, which was scheduled to open this fall, will be delayed until next spring. Botanica officials say the next project will be aimed at raising about $500,000 to refurbish a merry-go-round from the ...