10 years ago
Strong winds sweeping across Kansas have overturned a tractor-trailer, blown down a fireworks tent, toppled trees and caused electrical outages. The National Weather Service reported hurricane-force winds of more than 80 mph Thursday in the Wichita area. The storms followed another round of severe weather Wednesday. In Sedgwick County, emergency crews rescued the tractor-trailer driver who became ...

10 years ago
A Fort Riley soldier has died in a motorcycle crash. According to the Army, a 1st Infantry Division soldier was found dead July 8th following an apparent motorcycle accident near Vinita, Oklahoma. Pvt. Kaleb Ryan Davis, a combat engineer, was on leave at the time of the incident. "Soldiers of the 1st Engineer Battalion are mourning the loss ...

10 years ago
Saline County Sheriff Deputies are looking for a person who threw a rock and shattered a window on a moving road grader. Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski says that a  county John Deer road grader was working in the 3500 block of W. Water Well on Wednesday afternoon. The driver observed a pickup truck approaching. As the ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman this week. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that a man driving a black Ford Taurus slowed down, and summoned a female pedestrian over to the car to ask for directions.  When the woman came up to the vehicle the man exposed himself ...

10 years ago
A sign supporting local law enforcement appeared Thursday morning in front of the the Saline County Criminal Justice Center. A professionally made vinyl banner reading "God Bless Our Law Enforcement" was erected in a grassy area near the entrance to the Saline County Sheriff's Office and the Salina Police Department. The banner also has both a ...

10 years ago
A church pastor and longtime eastern Kansas homeless shelter director has been charged with sexually molesting a child. 57-year-old Jay Preston was charged Monday in Miami County with felony aggravated indecent liberties with a child. He's jailed on $500,000 bond. It wasn't immediately known if he has an attorney. He had served as pastor of Grace Revolution ...

10 years ago
Court records show that a Kansas agency has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit over the case of a 4-year-old boy fatally beaten by his father in 2013. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas Department for Children and Families has reached the deal with the Naomi Boone, mother of the late Mekhi Boone. The settlement's ...

10 years ago
Authorities say a Wichita sheriff's investigator was briefly hospitalized after being overcome with an unknown substance in a department evidence room. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department says the detective was processing evidence as part of a drug investigation when he opened a plastic bag and was overcome by a strong smell. The investigator then experienced sweating, ...

10 years ago
Kansas’ primary elections will be held Tuesday, August 2.  In Saline County, several races will be decided in the primary, as some offices do not have candidates from both parties. To inform the voters of the Saline County area, the Salina League of Women Voters will hold a candidate forum Thursday night at 6:30 at Kansas Wesleyan’s ...

10 years ago
A federal appeals court has agreed to quickly hear an appeal that could affect the voting rights of thousands of voters in Kansas, Georgia and Alabama. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia set on Wednesday an expedited schedule in the case of a U.S. election official who without public notice required documentary ...

10 years ago
Topeka is setting spending limits targeted at keeping the city from raising property taxes next year. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/29CmAHP) reports that a city governing body that consists of the mayor and nine council members made the decision Tuesday night. The vote comes as cities begin preparing for a new state-imposed property tax lid to take ...