12 years ago
Police are looking for a 24-year-old woman who was last seen at a motel in Junction City. Police say Amanda Clemons was last seen Friday night leaving a room at the Budget Host Motel. Witnesses told police she was being placed in a sliver vehicle occupied by two men and two women. Clemons is described ...

12 years ago
A missing 66-year-old Kansas man has been found safe in Colorado following a six-county search after the man's SUV got stuck in a field over the weekend. Lt. Col. Mike Daniels, spokesman for the Colorado Civil Air Patrol, said the man was found Tuesday by a pilot, who was able to direct searchers to the ...

12 years ago
A Lawrence couple has donated 165 acres of woodlands and pasture to the Land Institute in Salina. The land from Jim and Cindy Haines is west of Lawrence is known as the Gorrill Farmstead. The Haines also gave 65 acres to the Land Institute in July. The Land Institute is a Salina-based environmental agriculture ...

12 years ago
A director is looking for a barn in Kansas for a Coca-Cola commercial. Zach Lowry, film director of New York-based Flex Collective, wants to come to Kansas in May or June to shoot a Coke commercial. He first wants to find a weathered, wood barn, with a wood-shingled roof, next to or surrounded by a wheat field. ...

12 years ago
Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is facing questions about whether he lives in his native Kansas or the Washington, D.C., area. Roberts was born in Topeka, holds his degree from Kansas State University and makes a point of spending much of his congressional breaks crisscrossing the state. But he's worked in Washington as an aide and member ...

12 years ago
Wichita police are investigating the death of a man found in the basement of a communications company as a homicide. An employee of Steckline Communications found the body around 8 a.m. Monday. The company operates the Mid America Ag News Network and several radio stations. Investigators said the man was in his mid-20s and had ...

12 years ago
Falling ice causes damage in downtown Salina. Sometime late Sunday or early Monday, a large chunk of ice fell from the roof of a building in the 100 Block of North Santa Fe and crashed down. The ice first landed on an awning, tearing it from a wall. The building at 125 North Santa Fe houses Howard's ...

12 years ago
A false report of a robbery leads to three arrests. Police say that 25-year-old Cedric Cooper reported that he was robbed while walking in the 600 Block of Woodland Friday afternoon. Officers quickly responded to the area, and located and detained two suspects. They are identified as 35-year-old Adam Cross and 41-year-old Troy Pryor, both from ...

12 years ago
A Salina couple are arrested following a disturbance where one of them is hit in the head with a propane tank and with a gun. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 23-year-old Christine Rice and 29-year-old Michael Tanuis were involved in a disturbance in an apartment at 2660 Highland early Sunday morning. During ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman avoids being scammed. Police say that a 72-year-old woman received a phone call early Friday morning from someone claiming to be a nephew. The caller claimed to have recently been involved in a crash. He said that he was "in-between" insurance companies", and needed $954 to pay for the damage. The caller asked the ...

12 years ago
Salina Police warn of a theft scam that people around the country, and locally, have fallen victim to. Police issued this release Monday: The Salina Police Department wishes to keep the public informed regarding a theft scam, which has cost victims nationwide hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Salina Police Department Special Enforcement Bureau has ...