9 years ago
Police are investigating a burglary at KFC, 430 S. Broadway after someone stole over $1,000 in cash from a locked +safe inside the store sometime between Thursday evening at 1:50pm and 8am Friday morning. Police have a possible suspect and say there was no forced entry into the restaurant.   A red, Ryoki brand moped was stolen ...

9 years ago
The Kansas state lawmaker whose 10-year-old son was killed last August in a horrific accident on a ride at the Schlitterbahn Water Park spoke out for the first time about the tragedy in an interview that aired today on “Good Morning America.” "Six went to the park and five came back," Kansas Rep. Scott Schwab said, ...

9 years ago
A would-be burglar leaves Rolling Hills Zoo empty handed early Monday morning. According to Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan, deputies were sent to the Museum at Rolling Hills west of Salina after glass was broken by a suspect at 1:07am today. Deputies say the suspect cut the fence to enter the grounds in the parking area ...

9 years ago
A domestic quarrel turns violent and leads to the arrest of a Salina man. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that a 21-year-old female victim ran to a nearby home for help after allegedly being punched and strangled by 31-year-old Richard Swartz early Saturday morning. Police say the argument began around midnight in a house the ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a woman has died after swerving to miss a deer on a southwest Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the woman as 62-year-old Peggy Lee Snodgrass, of Ashland. She was killed Saturday night when she swerved into a ditch on U.S. 160 about two miles west of the Comanche County town of Protection. ...

9 years ago
Kansas officials are considering building an airport in Johnson County to compete with Kansas City International. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback told the Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2kzMJxm) the state is exploring the possibility of building a major airport on the Kansas side of the metro area. Previous talks about renovating Kansas City International and combining all its gates ...

9 years ago
Kansas lawmakers are opting not to act this year on questions raised by an audit critical of the state's asset forfeiture laws. Instead, they are asking a judicial advisory group to review potential changes. The audit released last summer concluded that law enforcement agencies take advantage of vague laws governing how they should report and use ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a central Kansas police chief was injured after an unoccupied police car struck him. The patrol say 69-year-old Wilson Police Chief Robert Charles Doepp was hurt early Friday on a highway one mile east of Wilson. The Hays Post reports  a vehicle driven by 39-year-old Amanda Ann Thrasher, of Wilson, struck an ...

9 years ago
A 38-year-old man who said he beat his roommate to death because he thought she was a zombie pleaded no contest to second-degree murder. Christopher Duane Wallace entered the plea Friday in the January 2016 strangling and beating death of 35-year-old Jennifer Lopez in Overland Park. A Johnson County judge then found Wallace guilty of the charge ...

9 years ago
A Kansas City lawyer admitted conspiring with his former law partner to steal money from St. Luke's Health Systems. Mark Schultz pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy. His former law partner, Alan Gallas, pleaded guilty last April to mail fraud and was sentenced Friday to one year in federal prison. Gallas also was ordered to pay restitution of ...

9 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is pushing for changes that would strengthen the state's laws against human trafficking. The state Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday introduced a bill containing Schmidt's proposals. He said in a statement that the changes would put Kansas "in the top tier" of states in fighting trafficking. His proposed changes include specifically making ...