10 years ago
A bag carried to the moon aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft and used for the first sample of lunar material is at the center of a legal fight after the government mistakenly sold it during the criminal case against the former director of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. The bag was flown on Apollo 11 ...

10 years ago
Police are investigating after someone broke the glass on an exterior door at the Heather Ridge Apartments, 2130 E. Crawford, sometime between 5pm and 5:10pm on Thursday. Damage is listed at $500. A Craftsman riding mower was stolen from a yard at 809 Hancock, sometime between July 28 and August 1. Loss is listed at $1,083. ...

10 years ago
A pull trailer is destroyed in a fire near Mentor. Crews from Rural Fire District #2 responded to an active fire Thursday morning around 10:30am at storage shed south of Mentor located at 5557 S. Old 81 Highway. Lt. Stan Fruits with the Saline County Sheriff's Office says investigators believe the fire was electrical in nature and ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after multiple shots were fired Thursday night in the Lowe's parking lot. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that officers were called to Lowe's Home Improvement, 3035 S.9th just before 10pm on Thursday after a group of people witnessed a suspect fire a gun at a man in a car. Investigators say the ...

10 years ago
As the first woman to be CEO and dean of Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus, Verna Fitzsimmons is receiving national recognition for her continued support and leadership of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education, has ...

10 years ago
Salina USD 305 teachers returned to the classroom Friday. While teachers new to the district began returning a couple of days ago, returning teachers joined them Friday. All of the teachers in the district gathered at Central High School to begin the new year. They were welcomed back by Superintendent Bill Hall. District students will all return ...

10 years ago
More than 20 percent of Kansas' school districts, including some of the larger districts will have new superintendents this fall. Dale Dennis, deputy education commissioner of Kansas, said 61 Kansas school districts, including Topeka, Olathe, Lawrence and Manhattan, have new leaders this year.  Some veteran superintendents in rural districts are also going elsewhere. The departures follow at ...

10 years ago
On August 4, 2016 at approximately 2:13AM, Saline County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the 10500 block of S. Gypsum Valley Road in rural Saline County for a barn and hay bales on fire. A total of 729 alfalfa bales, a 2014 JCB bale loader and the hay shed were destroyed. The Saline County Sheriff’s Office and ...

10 years ago
The Kansas State Board of Education has approved a total of $7.2 million in additional state aid to 31 public school districts. But it's not clear how much money the districts actually will receive after the board's action Thursday. Legislators financed the "extraordinary needs" aid with proceeds from selling off an economic development agency's assets. The sale ...

10 years ago
An Ellsworth man is cited for leaving the scene of the accident on I-135 early Wednesday morning. A semi truck driver contacted authorities after being struck from behind near mile post 78 around 6:05am Wednesday. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, 28-year-old Corey D. Hill struck the truck from behind with his Chevy Suburban, then briefly ...

10 years ago
A county official says enough signatures were gathered to allow a grand jury to criminally investigate Secretary of State Kris Kobach's handling of Kansas' online voter registration system. But even Kobach's harshest critics say they've seen no evidence he committed a crime. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Thursday that the petition has more than the required ...