9 years ago
An elderly Saline County woman was duped for over $17,000 through a telephone scam. According to Sheriff Roger Soldan,  a man identifying himself as Sergeant Bradshaw with the U.S. Embassy in Dominican Republic told the 81-year-old woman over the phone on Monday that her grandson had been arrested there for possession of marijuana. He then convinced her ...

9 years ago
An eyewitness who saw a teenager fire a gun into the air helped police locate him a short time later at a grocery store. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News 16-year-old Johnathan Hulse was arrested Tuesday evening around 5:30pm at the Dillon's Supermarket, 1235 E. Cloud Street after allegedly firing one round from a semi automatic ...

9 years ago
The Saline County Commission issued a mandatory 7 day ban on the open burning of any waste, normal household trash in a container, structures or vegetation within the boundaries of Saline County.  The ban includes the City of Salina.  The ban will be in place until it is specifically rescinded by the Commission. The resolution notes ...

9 years ago
Ohio farmers are sending hay, fencing materials and other supplies to Kansas to help ranches that were devastated by wildfires this month. Rose Hartschuh runs a dairy farm with her husband near Bucyrus (byoo-SY'-rus), Ohio, and helped coordinate the assistance from farmers and agricultural businesses. She says though the fires were 1,000 miles away, the devastation ...

9 years ago
A Topeka man was sentenced to 47 months in federal prison for the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 30-year-old Reginald Eugene Newman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said Monday that Newman admitted in his plea to taking a teenage girl in ...

9 years ago
Patients, doctors and advocates are pushing to expand Kansas' Medicaid system despite an ongoing effort in Washington to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law. The Senate Public Health and Welfare committee heard testimony Monday on a bill that would expand Medicaid to between 100,000 and 200,000 low-income adults. The measure passed the ...

9 years ago
Authorities have identified a homicide victim whose body was found in a south Wichita strip mall parking lot as a 26-year-old woman. The Wichita Eagle  reports that the woman was identified Monday as Sandra Flores of Wichita. Police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow said she was shot once and that there are no suspects. Flores was pronounced dead shortly ...

9 years ago
The death of a woman's 7-year-old grandson is propelling her to become an advocate for reform of home schooling. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports Judy Conway believes her grandson's father and stepmother used home schooling to prevent anyone from knowing how he was being treated. Police found Adrian Jones' remains in the pigsty at the family's home in ...

9 years ago
Police are investigating the death of a 10-month-old girl who was left alone in a bathtub in northeast Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports that Leavenworth police identified the girl as Caydence Little-Curtis. She was unresponsive when officers responded Monday night to a report of a child not breathing. She was rushed to a hospital where ...

9 years ago
Firefighters are mopping up after a huge fire spread from a suburban Kansas City apartment complex that was under construction to more than a dozen homes. KCTV-TV  reports that Overland Park Fire Department spokesman Jason Rhodes says crews have put out the fire at the multimillion-dollar CityPlace development in Overland Park, Kansas. He says the crews ...

9 years ago
The court-appointed attorneys for a Kansas man accused of plotting to bomb to an apartment complex filled with Somali immigrants have asked a court to let them withdraw from the case. The filing Monday by attorneys for Patrick Stein comes in the wake of an arraignment last week on a superseding indictment. Stein told the magistrate ...