10 years ago
CLAY CENTER, Kan. (AP) - The Clay Center Zoo is trying to raise $500,000 in order to keep the zoo open. Bill Callaway, director of Clay Center Public Utilities Commission, told The Salina Journal that as of Friday afternoon, the zoo was $320,000 ...

10 years ago
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon have made a friendly wager over the 2015 World Series matchup between the Mets and the Kansas City Royals. If the Mets win, Gov. Jay Nixon will wear a Mets jersey to work for a full day. If the Royals win, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will do ...

10 years ago
A pilot of a small experimental aircraft was killed Sunday evening when he crashed in a field north of Salina. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 62-year-old Delwyn Schmidt took off from his small private grass runway at his house in rural Ottawa County. As he was on his ascent he tried to make a turn ...

10 years ago
Over 800 people laced up their shoes and ran, or walked, the length of Santa Fe Avenue in Salina Saturday morning. It was the "Fe for a Cure" event to help locally in the fight against cancer. Fe for A Cure was a 5K point to point race/walk through the heart of Salina, down Santa Fe ...

10 years ago
Sedgwick County authorities say a man suspected of an armed robbery fatally shot himself after trying to elude officers. Sedgwick County Sheriff's Sgt. Lanon Thompson says the man held up a poker room early Saturday. A witness followed him until officers arrived. A short chase ended when the man's vehicle crashed. Thompson says the suspect was found dead ...

10 years ago
An organization that is dedicated to helping the animals at the Salina Animal Shelter has received a boost to help in its efforts. The Friends of the Salina Animal Shelter has received a $5,000 donation from a Salina business.  Auto dealer Long McArthur presented a check to the organization on Friday. Kevin Sander from Long McArthur ...

10 years ago
The Kansas State Fire Marshal is investigating after firefighters found a woman's body during a fire at her southeast Kansas home. Crawford County Sheriff Dan Peak says the body of 59-year-old Susan E. Montanye was found Friday in Mulberry. Peak said Saturday the cause of death has not been determined. He says he doesn't expect the results ...

10 years ago
A judge has rejected a motion arguing that the man convicted of killing Wichita abortion provider Dr. George Tiller should not be subject to the Hard 50 sentence when he is resentenced. An attorney for Scott Roeder argued in Sedgwick County Court Friday that a change in state law regarding how sentences of life in prison ...

10 years ago
A Topeka man is upset that a ghost tour charged people to enter a site where his grandfather was shot to death while working as a police officer. Ghost Tours if Kansas hosted an event at Topeka's Moose Lodge earlier this month. The lodge is where Clarence Shields, a police officer, was shot to death in ...

10 years ago
Police say the number of people injured in an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crash has grown to 44. Stillwater police Capt. Kyle Gibbs gave the new total in a release Saturday night. He also says the 2-year-old who became the fourth person to die was a boy and that the three others killed were all ...

10 years ago
Lorenzo Cain sprinted home from first base on Eric Hosmer's single in the eighth inning, Wade Davis weathered a 45-minute rain delay and a white-knuckle ninth, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 Friday night to earn their second straight trip to the World Series. The victory in Game 6 of the ...