A deputy at a central Kansas jail is accused of having illegal sexual relations with a female inmate and bribing or intimidating two others. Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson announced the charges Tuesday against 30-year-old Jonathan Diaz. Henderson says he asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to get involved after learning of the allegations two weeks ago. District Attorney Keith Schroede...
A standoff with an armed man in the McPherson County community of Marquette ends peacefully Tuesday afternoon. Law enforcement tells KSAL News that a man with a weapon allegedly made several threats, and then refused to come out of a home. As a standoff ensued, officers from McPherson County and the Kansas Highway Patrol responded to the scene. The man ended up surrendering peacefully. There we...
A Google Street View car was seen roaming the streets of Salina Tuesday taking photos. Cars in Google's Street View fleet have 15 lenses taking 360 degrees of photos. Motion sensors track the camera's position, a hard drive stores the data, a small computer runs the system and lasers capture 3D data to determine distances within Street View imagery. Google's cars are mapping cities around the co...
Thieves remove all four tires and rims from a truck. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, a 2008 Chevy pickup was hit by thieves sometime between Monday at 10pm and Tuesday at 2:56am, while parked in the 1200 block of Faith Drive. The owner contacted police after someone jacked up the truck, removed all four tires and rims and left the vehicle on blocks. Total loss is listed at $2,300. ...
A former Internal Revenue Service agent faces sentencing after admitting she was paid for meetings with taxpayers that never occurred. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil will decide Tuesday whether to accept the government's recommendation of probation for Becky L. Book of Pittsburg. Book pleaded guilty in February to receiving more than $26,000 in salary and mileage payments that she didn't ear...
Movie staff finds an empty wallet. A Salina man is out $500 cash after accidently leaving his wallet at the Starplex Cinemas at the Central Mall, 2259 S. 9th. Police say the 45-year-old man attended a movie Sunday night and realized the next morning he'd left his wallet behind. Staff found the wallet on the floor Sunday night, which did not contain any cash - and put it in the safe. The man me...
Vandals damage a door at KDOT. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, someone shattered the door glass on a building used by the Kansas Department of Transportation, 1112 N. 3rd, sometime over the weekend between Friday at 5pm and Monday at 6:30am. Police say no entry was made into the building, after the 3-foot by 6-foot double pane glass on the door was smashed with an unknown object. Total damage i...
Salina's city commission will consider allowing liquor sales in the city on Sunday. The possibility arose during a meeting Monday, when the commission approved an ordinance that allows microbreweries in the city. During discussion of that ordinance, commissioners considered whether to allow Sunday liquor sales. Current Salina law prohibits Sunday sales at liquor stores and other places that sell...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - An engineering firm says it plans to appeal a decision by federal regulators in favor of a whistleblower allegedly fired for reporting unsafe conditions at a nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found Georgia based Enercon Services violated whistleblower protections when it retaliated against an engineer for raising concerns...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The tornadoes that have raked communities in Oklahoma, Texas and other states over the past week belie what has been an unusually slow start to the 2013 tornado season. In fact, this was the longest the U.S. had gone into May without registering an EF1 or stronger tornado, which are the types that can cause damage. That's according to Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist at...
Kansas News A woman was arrested in Abilene after she allegedly tried to rob an armed car driver at gunpoi...
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