12 years ago
A Salina-area homeschool group is hosting an Ice Cream Social on Monday evening. According to Renee Rivera, Co-op Director with Smoky Valley Home Educators (SVHE), homeschooling has grown around the nation as an alternative to public education, "We have 50 to 70 families that are actual members," she said. Rivera tells KSAL News that her family chose ...

12 years ago
A Lawrence man has finally received the Olympic medal he won more than a decade ago for Nigeria. Jude Monye was told five years ago he'd won the gold medal as a member of a track relay team in 2000 at the Sydney Olympics. The U.S. team won the gold for that race but was ...

12 years ago
A woman wanted on an active warrant in Cloud County, is arrested after an altercation at a Salina Bar. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, 45-year-old Lori Saey was arrested on Friday night after allegedly pulling out a BB hand gun and pointing it at another woman. Police say patrons grabbed the Colt Defender BB gun and held ...

12 years ago
A man has been sentenced to probation for stealing a statue from Wichita State more than 25 years ago. Mitchel R. Potter of Lamar, Mo., has pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property in connection with the 1987 theft of a bronze bust of poet Robert Frost from WSU. Potter, who was not a student at ...

12 years ago
A seller on Craigslist falls victim to a fraudulent check. Salina Police are investigating a theft by deception case after 19-year-old Amethyst Travelbee of Salina sold a lift chair recliner on the website Craigslist. Police say the chair was listed for $250, and the buyer sent a check to the woman for $1,450. The buyer ...

12 years ago
Three soldiers, two of them from Salina, are being called heroes after they jumped into action earlier this month. One while a man was being attacked and stabbed, two others after they found four people injured. On August 10th, four people were stabbed after a night out near the intersection of 6th & Jackson. 21-year-old Colin ...

12 years ago
Police say a 12-year-old boy told them he was driving a car to get his dad and a friend, who were both drunk, something to eat. Wichita police pulled the boy over early Sunday because the car was being driven erratically. A passenger, who police say appeared to be intoxicated, was with him. Police spokesman Sgt. Bart ...

12 years ago
A former police officer accused of conspiring to bribe a car-theft victim in hopes of saving her job is due back in court. Thirty-four-year-old ex-Wichita police officer Joletta Vallejo and her co-defendants have a hearing Monday in federal court in Wichita. She was indicted in May on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Also charged are ...

12 years ago
Lawrence city leaders are putting the brakes on plans to purchase new buses for their public transportation fleet to give another look at using compressed natural gas as a power source. The city had planned to buy three diesel and diesel-electric hybrid buses, but the lower cost of natural gas is prompting a second look. The Lawrence ...

12 years ago
A 25-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the slaying of another man who was held down as his throat was slashed. The Wichita Eagle reports Caesar K. Louis pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary in the Aug. 4, 2012, death of Phem Xiong. Louis, who was scheduled to go on trial Monday ...

12 years ago
A Kansas lawyer challenging the state's Sexual Predator Act says a lot has changed in the law since the Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that it was constitutional. Attorney Michael Whalen lost a bid Friday to keep the state from using his client's medical and prison records against him. Whalen argued that forcing his client, ...