11 years ago
Heavy equipment owned by a Salina car dealership is stolen. Police say someone removed a trailer and high-lift tractor from a lot at 1540 W. Schilling Road sometime during the overnight hours on June 18th. The equipment is owned by Long McArthur Ford and is described as a yellow, high-lift tractor of unknown make plus a 10-foot ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is treated at the hospital after an argument turns violent. Police are searching for a known suspect after a 27-year-old man was hit in the head twice with a blunt object. Police were called to a residence in the 600 block of N. 7th on Wednesday evening just before 10pm after the man, who ...

11 years ago
The stars of the TNA Wrestling, as seen on SPIKE TV, are coming to Salina. The TNA Impact Wrestling 2014 World Tour will stop in Salina this Fall. The event is coming to the Salina Bicenetnnial Center on Saturday, September 27th. Prior to the show, a new "Fist-Pumpin Pre-Show Party" is planned. Starting one hour ...

11 years ago
State and city officials say excessive a massive fish kill at Sterling Lake in central Kansas was caused by excessive green algae. The fish began floating to the surface of the lake Tuesday. City manager Taggart Wall says the lake is not dangerous for humans. The naturally-occurring algae creates oxygen in a lake during the day ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Department of Transportation is warning political candidates that the agency's crews will remove campaign signs found alongside the state's highways. The department notes that Kansas law prohibits campaign signs and billboards on a highway right-of-way. The law allows only guide, warning or regulatory signs in those spaces. The reminder of the rule comes as campaigning ...

11 years ago
Two days of media previews of the world's tallest water slide have been canceled and the attraction's scheduled opening Sunday is in question because of problems with its conveyor system. The 17-story, 168-foot-tall water slide is called Verruckt — German for "insane." Schlitterbahn Waterpark spokeswoman Winter Prosapio says the conveyor carries 100-pound, four-person rafts to the ...

11 years ago
A man already serving time in a Kansas military prison has been indicted in cold case sex crimes involving three young girls. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said in a statement Wednesday that 45-year-old Billy Wayne Cooper, formerly of Calhoun County, was served with the indictments at the detention barracks of a military base in Fort ...

11 years ago
The Kansas State Board of Education has approved regulations allowing people with relevant experience but no education degree to obtain teaching licenses. Wednesday's 9-1 vote during a brief special meeting was necessary for implementing a new law that takes effect July 1. Legislators approved the measure as a way to increase the available pool of teachers in ...

11 years ago
The number of arrests in a central Kansas drug investigation is up to five in slightly more than a week. KWCH-TV reports sheriff's deputies arrested three people June 17 in Great Bend and rural Barton County. Authorities reported seizing motor vehicles, drug paraphernalia and 9 ounces of methamphetamine with a street value of more than $20,000. Several ...

11 years ago
A judge is allowing a celebrity hunter who unlawfully killed a deer in Kansas to travel abroad while on probation once his ban from hunting worldwide expires. Federal prosecutors argued Wednesday the career of William "Spook" Spann would not suffer from the travel ban. But U.S. Magistrate Judge James O'Hara disagreed and ruled that Spann ...

11 years ago
Earthquakes used to be almost unheard of on the vast stretches of prairie that unfold across Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. But in recent months, temblors have become commonplace in some areas, rattling nerves and raising suspicions that the shaking might be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing. Although most ...