9 years ago
The Salina based Kansas Wing of the Civil Air Patrol was recently credited by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center with two non-distress emergency locator beacon finds, with the second ELT alerting just minutes after the first was deactivated. According to the patrol, On July 13th, they were contacted by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol is among law enforcement agencies that are working together in a multi-state speed enforcement effort. According to the agency, a six-state speed enforcement will occur this weekend, from July 21 through July 23. The Kansas Highway Patrol and local law enforcement agencies will join law enforcement from Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and ...

9 years ago
A man has caught an unusually large flathead catfish in a lake northeast of Wichita and locals think it's the largest fish of any kind reeled in during the lake's 50-year history. Charlie Henning caught an 80-pound catfish at Marion Reservoir last week that was more than 50 inches long. All of Henning's gear used to catch ...

9 years ago
Five employees of the Southeast Kansas Humane Society have resigned, saying budget constraints, lack of staff training and job responsibility changes put animals at risk. Three former employees say that they could no longer advocate for the animals amid the shelter's conditions. Catherine Geiger worked at the shelter for nearly two years. She says job responsibilities were ...

9 years ago
A bag containing traces of moon dust has sold at auction in New York City for $1.8 million. The sale at Sotheby's on Thursday was surrounded by some fallout from a galactic court battle. The collection bag was used by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned mission to the moon in 1969. But the artifact from the ...

9 years ago
Because the bad guys don't always stand still, Salina Police officers now have another tool to practice their marksmanship. Officers recently began training with a moving target at SPD's shooting range. "It's primary purpose is to have a moving platform to shoot at to improve our shooting ability," said Chief of Police Brad Nelson. "You can also put ...

9 years ago
A hay bale that caught on fire blackened a portion of a field near Gypsum on Wednesday. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, a bearing inside a John Deer baler overheated and ignited a bale inside the machine in the 8800 block of S. Whitmore Road. Ryan Nilson was able to eject the bale before the ...

9 years ago
A family dog is dead after police shot it during a burglary investigation. Wichita police say they were investigating a reported break-in on Ash Street Wednesday night when an officer faced a dog that had pushed its way out of a fence and charged the officer. After giving ground, police say the officer was had to ...

9 years ago
Authorities say an inmate has been stabbed numerous times during a fight at a south-central Kansas prison. Kansas Department of Corrections spokesman Todd Fertig said in a prepared statement that the victim received "several puncture wounds in an inmate-on-inmate altercation" around 7 p.m. Wednesday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The prison also was the scene ...

9 years ago
A federal judge has given her approval to a deal in a lawsuit filed against the Wilson County sheriff over his jail's policy of allowing inmates to receive and send only postcards in the mail. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson preliminarily approved on Wednesday the class action settlement that would allow inmates to receive letters at ...

9 years ago
The vice chair of President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission says we may never know whether Hillary Clinton really won the 2016 election's popular vote. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was asked in an interview Wednesday with MSNBC whether he believed Clinton had won the popular vote because of fraud. He responded, "We will probably never ...