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Members of the County’s Expo Center committee met this week to review a draft proposal and identify strategies about how best to approach the City Commission about extending the City-held lease for the EXPO Center property. Greg Jones, representing the Kansas Saddle Horse Association, said that the Kansas Coliseum and three other venues are no longer ...

10 years ago
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina is on a mission: to find 100 Bigs in 100 Days for children who need a mentor. "Our most important job is to make sure that we keep these kids safe and find good quality mentors," said Michelle Peck, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina. Peck stopped by the ...

10 years ago
A warrant request by police leads to the arrest of a Salina man. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 59-year-old David J. McDowell was arrested on charges of aggravated battery that links back to a January incident at Salina Regional Health Center. Police say while McDowell was a patient at the hospital, he struck a female nurse in ...

10 years ago
The chairman of Ted Cruz's campaign in Kansas says the Texas senator has "harmed himself immeasurably" by not endorsing Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee. Kansas state Rep. Mark Kahrs of Wichita said Thursday that he is disappointed in Cruz's failing to endorse Trump. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback also said he was disappointed. Brownback said that ...

10 years ago
Five late night swimmers were cited for trespassing at Kenwood Cove early Thursday. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an officer on patrol heard noises of splashing water and voices coming from inside Salina's aquatic park around 1:13am Thursday. Police escorted the group of males from the pool and arrested 19-year-old Andrew Wood, while also citing 18-year-old Christopher ...

10 years ago
A stolen truck was found wrecked in a ditch southeast of Salina. A passerby called authorities Wednesday after spotting a black pickup that was damaged and left abandoned in the 2000 block of S. Cunningham. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office report the truck had extensive damage to the engine, exterior and that someone had kicked ...

10 years ago
When he was teaching math at Cowley College, Greg Nichols saw the difference technical education could make in people's lives. Now, as the second President of Salina Area Technical College, he wants the college to reach a growing number of people throughout north-central Kansas, helping them become not only skilled workers — but also skilled citizens. Nichols ...

10 years ago
A Kansas police department credited with saving the life of a dog outside of a business is receiving an award. A Compassionate Police Department Award is on its way from PETA to the Arkansas City Police Department. Earlier this month two members of the department were credited with saving the life of a dog outside of ...

10 years ago
A slain Kansas City, Kansas, police officer had been awaiting the arrival of another child. Police said in a release Wednesday that Capt. Robert Melton's partner was pregnant and due to give birth this winter. Melton was shot and killed Tuesday when he was responding to a police call. Authorities say the attack wasn't a planned ambush. ...

10 years ago
High temperatures and humidity are baking much of the central U.S. this week, sending heat indexes soaring as high as 115 degrees in some places for the first time this year. The National Weather Service says the high pressure system, sometimes called a "heat dome," will push conditions to their hottest point this summer, though temperatures ...

10 years ago
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a two-tiered election system that require Kansas election officials to throw out thousands of votes cast in state and local races by people who registered at motor vehicle offices or used a federal form without providing documentary proof of their U.S. citizenship. The class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Shawnee ...