5 years ago
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred in Chanute. The Chanute Police Department contacted the KBI at approximately 8 p.m. on Friday to request assistance investigating the shooting. According to the KBI, preliminary information indicates that the Chanute Police Department received a report of a suspicious person who was looking into vehicle ...

5 years ago
The Kansas Bureau of investigation says a knife-yielding man slashed his own throat during a confrontation with a police officer. According to the agency, at approximately 9 p.m. Friday the KBI was asked by the Augusta Police Department to investigate an officer-involved shooting. Preliminary information indicates the Augusta Police Department received a 911 call where no report ...

5 years ago
Physicians Andrew Schlachter and Dena Hubbard made life-or-death appeals Friday for Kansans to accept vaccination against COVID-19 to save themselves and loved ones at a time when spread of the delta variant threatened to buckle the Kansas City health care system. The doctors joined Gov. Laura Kelly at Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute to share snapshots of ...

5 years ago
The search for the medallion is well into its fourth day. The Smoky Hill River Festival Medallion Quest continues. The seventh clue was unveiled at 4:30 Saturday afternoon. It is "Minding piece and cues." Here are all of the clues: Slide into it. Stoop to conquer. Full moon lines. A kind of vault. Old faces new. Clark’s ...

5 years ago
Whether college students are heading off to school for freshman year or returning to campus, car care and property insurance may get lost in the back-to-school shuffle. AAA Kansas reminds students living away at college and their parents to not overlook these important steps to make sure vehicles and other belongings have adequate protection. “College students living ...

5 years ago
The Salina Regional Health Center Service Auxiliary has awarded over $7,500 in scholarships for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year. The organization awarded scholarships to three area students who are studying in the medical field. Scholarship recipients include: Teale Ryan, Salina, is pursuing a PhD in Nursing Education degree from KUMC.  Teale is currently employed at Salina ...

5 years ago
The search for the medallion is well into its third day. The Smoky Hill River Festival Medallion Quest continues. The sixth clue was unveiled at 7:30 Saturday morning. It is "Clark’s destination." Here are all of the clues: Slide into it. Stoop to conquer. Full moon lines. A kind of vault. Old faces new. Clark’s destination. Clues will ...

5 years ago
Professional financial advisers, accountants, and attorneys can earn important continuing education credits, including an hour of ethics credit while they learn more about planned giving trends at a seminar next week, hosted in Hays by the Dane G. Hansen Foundation and the Heartland Community Foundation. Bryan Clontz, founder and president of Charitable Solutions, LLC, based in ...

5 years ago
As the fight against COVID-19 continues, Kansas State University has received a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to research a new treatment method for the virus. Kyeong-Ok "KC" Chang, a virologist at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, is the principal investigator ...

5 years ago
There has been 1 new COVID death and 35 new cases in Saline County. According to the Saline County Health Department, another member of the community was lost to COVID-19, bringing the death toll in the county to 128, an additional two this week. There have been 35 new COVID-19 cases identified since our last update on ...

5 years ago
The search for the medallion is well into its third day. The Smoky Hill River Festival Medallion Quest continues. The fifth clue was unveiled at 4:30 Friday afternoon. It is "Old faces new." Here are all of the clues: Slide into it. Stoop to conquer. Full moon lines. A kind of vault. Old faces new. Clues will be ...