8 years ago
U.S. Senator Jerry Moran has a busy Labor Day Weekend, traveling to multiple countries to meet with Kansas soldiers. According to Moran's Office, the Senator traveled with Acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy to Poland, Germany and Afghanistan to meet with U.S. Army soldiers, to assess their efforts in the European Deterrence Initiative, and to ...

8 years ago
Fort Riley will hosts the Fallen Hero Run this weekend. The run is to honor and remember military members who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in support and defense of the United States. The run, which starts and ends at Riley’s Conference Center, is this Saturday morning at 9. It is open to the public. Registration starts ...

8 years ago
Three Kansas Wing, Civil Air Patrol volunteers returned home to Kansas this week after spending about a week in Texas. According to the organization, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Davis, 1st Lieutenant Brad Hawthorne, and 1st Lieutenant Tom Page, all from the Wichita area, flew to Texas on August 31st and supported a mission which has exceeded 291 ...

8 years ago
An Army veteran from Reno County was sentenced Wednesday to three years on probation and ordered to pay back $70,000 in benefits he received by pretending to be blind. The man’s ex-wife was sentenced to a year on probation for helping with the scheme. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, 62-year-old Billy J. Alumbaugh of Turon, ...

8 years ago
A dog that had been missing from Ottawa County ever since his owner was found murdered, has been found alive and well in California. On Saturday, Aug. 12, Matthew Schoshke’s body was discovered by a family member in his Tescott area home. Schoshke’s Ford F150 pickup truck was missing from the scene, as was his dog ...

8 years ago
Why We Fight, a documentary film by Eugene Jarecki, will be shown on Monday, September 11, at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home. This free public program begins at 7 p.m. in the Visitors Center The 98-minute film was produced by the Eisenhower Project, with support from Sony Pictures Classics and BBC Storyville. It was ...

8 years ago
Salina Police wrapped up a nearly two year investigation on Tuesday in to an aggravated burglary. The incident occurred on October 9, 2015, when Elizabeth Weeks was at her home at 841 1/2 S. 5th St in Salina. Weeks was with her three-year-old son when a female acquaintance came by to borrow a vacuum.  When the acquaintance ...

8 years ago
The Salina Public Library is answering a call to action by collecting funds to help hurricane victims. According to the organization, they will be donating two weeks of all fines collected Wednesday, September 6 through Wednesday, September 20th. The fine funds will be donated to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. “We want to do our ...

8 years ago
A familiar voice in Salina for nearly 20 years on KSAL Radio will no longer be heard. Family, friends, and colleagues are remembering Richard Volk, who was known to his listeners on the radio as Rich Alexander. Volk passed away late Monday morning following a battle with cancer. Volk started his radio career in Wichita, going by ...

8 years ago
Volunteers from the Red Cross office in Salina are preparing to head to Texas on Wednesday. An Emergency Response Vehicle team from the agency is scheduled to leave early in the afternoon. The American Red Cross is mobilizing thousands of volunteers to support hurricane relief oprations in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. As volunteers provide support to ...

8 years ago
Kansas officials are reacting to the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congressman Roger Marshall says his heart goes out to the children covered by DACA, and Congress must use legal ways to help them. Congressman Ron Estes says he supports President Trump's decision and says the move gives Congress time ...