9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a damage to property case after someone shot out the windows on a party bus. Police say sometime between 2pm Saturday and 7:45am Monday morning, someone used a BB-gun or pellet gun to shatter 8 windows and the windshield on a purple bus with K-State decals while it was parked behind Copy ...

9 years ago
A nonprofit organization that purchased the last known airplane identical to the one Amelia Earhart flew has announced plans for a new airport facility in Kansas that will serve as a museum to showcase the plane and as a terminal for airport traffic. The News-Press Now reports the Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation is finalizing renderings of ...

9 years ago
A Salina ambulance en route to help a woman in Gypsum early Tuesday morning was damaged by a deer. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, 43-year-old Chad Perez was driving a 2001 Dodge Ram ambulance eastbound on K-4 with lights and sirens on and was struck by a deer about a half mile west of ...

9 years ago
A Salina man has been paralyzed from the waist down after a two car crash last week. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News the collision happened under a yellow traffic light at the intersection of Broadway and Crawford around 5:45am Wednesday morning. Police say 69-year-old Paul C. Powell was driving a 2016 Nissan Versa southbound on ...

9 years ago
The University of Kansas is devoting a residence hall wing to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and their supporters. Student Housing director Diana Robertson says more than 20 students have signed up to live in the "gender inclusive housing" in Lewis Hall for the upcoming school year. Robertson says a small waiting list for the ...

9 years ago
A former Kansas high school coach who was convicted of child sex crimes will serve probation. Todd Kaiser was sentenced in Barton County District Court to three years of probation with an underling sentence of 32 months of confinement. The case involves sexting. Kaiser pleaded no contest to sexual exploitation of child in April after a nude ...

9 years ago
Court records say an investigation into a former Kansas police sergeant who's charged with sex crimes began when his wife reported concerns about him texting teenage girls. The affidavit for Valley Center police Sgt. Thomas Delgado was released Monday. The 49-year-old is facing charges of sexual exploitation of a child, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery, official ...

9 years ago
Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has told a sometimes raucous crowd of hundreds that he would have voted against a House-passed bill that would repeal and replace the Obama-era federal health care overhaul law. Moran spoke Monday at a conference center in Johnson County, which President Donald Trump won by fewer than 3 percentage point. Moran says ...

9 years ago
Flags are being flown at half-staff in honor of Kansas Rep. Patsy Terrell who was found dead last week in her hotel room near the Capitol. Flags will remain in that position at all state buildings, state grounds and state facilities through Saturday, when she will be interred. The Hutchinson Democrat was found dead last Wednesday. Topeka ...

9 years ago
Two Salina men were sentenced Monday on federal drug and gun charges. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, the two men who were sentenced are: Seth Allen George, 26, Salina, Kan., was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of brandishing firearms ...

9 years ago
A Missouri man was hurt in a single vehicle crash, when he rolled his truck on Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County late Monday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 25-year-old Evan Oltremare from Butler, Missouri, was driving a 2001 Ford truck headed west on I 70. For an unknown reason, the truck went into the ...