12 years ago
A car trailer is rented and not returned to a Salina business. Salina Police are looking for an 18-foot car hauler/trailer that was rented from Construction Rental, 515 N. Broadway, on August 18th and not brought back to the store. Police say the 2013 trailer is black in color and is valued at $2,900. ...

12 years ago
The Salina Business Hall of Fame will soon have two new members. According to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, two prominent Salina business persons have been selected to be inducted into the 2014 class of the Salina Business Hall of Fame. They are: Charles Underwood, credited with being the founder of Salina’s milling industry, ...

12 years ago
Rose Hill police say they're investigating three suspended high school athletes who allegedly urinated on another student at a party. Police Chief Bob Sage says that three Rose Hill High School football players and one baseball player were drinking at an off-campus party when the alleged battery occurred. He says three of the students urinated on ...

12 years ago
Hutchinson authorities say two women have been injured in a three-vehicle crash that included an empty school bus. Hutchinson Fire Department officials say the crash happened Tuesday afternoon. They say an SUV collided with a car that pulled in front of it. The collision sent the car flying into a nearby school bus. Both car drivers were ...

12 years ago
State officials are investigating the death of a 4-month-old girl at a foster home in a Wichita suburb. Sedgwick County officials say the girl died last Thursday at the home in Bel Aire. Sheriff Jeff Easter says the girl's 18-year-old mother was sleeping with her on a couch and apparently rolled on top of the child. ...

12 years ago
A Kansas zoo will lose its accreditation to have elephants if its officials can't find a way to upgrade the animals' enclosure. The Sedgwick County Zoological Society on Tuesday asked county commissioners to pay $5.3 million of a proposed $10.5 million elephant barn. Zoo officials say the commissioners have three weeks to consider the funding before ...

12 years ago
During a special board meeting, the Salina Airport Authority Board of Directors approved a lease agreement with Bombardier Flight Test Center for a portion of Hangar 959, commonly known as "Big Bertha." Bombardier Flight Test Center has been leasing hangar space at the Salina Airport since 2009 for aircraft storage. The lease of H959 will ...

12 years ago
The Goodwill store in Salina is one of over a dozen in Kansas affected by a security breach. According to Goodwill Industries of Kansas, an investigation has confirmed that a third-party vendor’s systems had been attacked by malware, enabling criminals to access some payment card data of a number of the vendor's customers. The third-party vendor's ...

12 years ago
A man who was shot and killed by officers in Barton County Saturday night allegedly initiated the gunfire by firing first. According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, on Saturday August 30th at around 6:40 P.M. the Barton County Sheriff’s Office along with Kansas Highway Patrol responded to the 500 block of Northwest 190th Road in ...

12 years ago
A longtime Salina broadcaster will be honored, and become a member of the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The KAB announced Tuesday that Jerry Hinrikus will receive the Distinguished Service Award, which automatically places him in the Hall of Fame. Hinrikus has been a broadcaster in the Midwest for 47 years beginning in Falls City, ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol credits a seat belt with saving a woman's life Tuesday morning. According to the agency, 26-year-old Misty Dawn Schartz of Ellis was driving her 2007 Dodge Nitro when a semi was accelerating on the shoulder and pulling out into the driving lane. Schartz struck the semi. According to KHP Trooper Tod Hileman, ...