9 years ago
Authorities say a man accidentally was shot while trying to help kill a buffalo at a south-central Kansas meat-processing business. The Reno County Sheriff's Department says Duane Helms of Moundridge was wounded in the leg shortly before 12:30 p.m. Friday at Yoder Meats in Yoder. Authorities say Helms was assisting a Yoder Meats employee in trying to ...

9 years ago
The Salina Symphony is planning a special fund-raising event.  Celebrate the night in “Black & White” at the 9th annual Salina Symphony Gala, to be held Sat., Feb. 25, at the Salina Country Club. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for cocktail hour and silent auction bidding. Dinner will follow at 7:00 p.m., followed by a ...

9 years ago
The Greater Salina Community Foundation has extended the grant deadline for the YW Legacy Fund until January 23, 2107. The YW Legacy Fund makes grants to support initiatives that align with the former YWCA’s mission and has approximately $19,600 is available to fund requests that meet the following criteria: Encourage women’s growth, leadership and power in ...

9 years ago
            The Abilene High School basketball teams traveled to Clay Center Friday night for Abilene’s final games before playing in the Salina Invitational Tournament next week.              Game one featured a battle of state ranked teams as the undefeated, defending state champions, Lady Tigers entered the game ranked 2nd in 4A ...

9 years ago
The exhibition space at the Mid-America All-Indian Center will be closed for two to three months because of damage from a water pipe break. City officials announced Friday that the water pipe flooded parts of the space Tuesday but no artifacts were damaged. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/2itqYAv) the exhibition space was covered in about a quarter-inch ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says two suspects have been arrested in the October deaths of three people in central Kansas. The KBI announced Friday that Mexican authorities arrested 35-year-old Jereme Lee Nelson and 31-year-old Myrta Rangel Thursday evening. They were returned to the U.S. and are held in the San Diego County Jail.   An extradition ...

9 years ago
A federal judge has entered a preliminary order of forfeiture against a husband and wife accused of laundering drug money for a Mexican cartel at a small southwest Kansas bank. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted on Friday the government's motion for the $28,340 in cash seized from the home of George and Agatha Enns ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Attorney General's Office is suing a Topeka business, accusing it of violating state law by disposing more than 34,000 documents in public dumpsters. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2jF1o9u) reports the lawsuit was filed Tuesday. According to the lawsuit, two employees at SearchTec Inc. repeatedly disposed of records containing personal information by leaving them in dumpsters ...

9 years ago
A Kansas Democratic leader says the state needs to investigate its National Guard after an internal investigation uncovered leadership problems that include instances of enlistment document forgery and racism. Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka said Friday that if Republican Gov. Sam Brownback doesn't look into the Guard, the Legislature should. His comments came after The ...

9 years ago
Police arrested a Salina man after a disturbance at a bar. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 25-year-old Deric Bell and a female friend got into an argument Thursday evening at Sunset Billiards, 1215 W. Crawford. Police say the argument escalated and the two were asked to leave the establishment around 9:30pm. The woman told officers ...

9 years ago
How will this weekend's ice storm compare to past ice storms in Kansas? Here are the top 5 all time Kansas ice storms as compiled by the National Weather Service. 1) December 10-11, 2007: Nearly all of Kansas. This horrific event was caused by devastating, widespread moderate to heavy freezing rain that resulted in equally widespread ...