10 years ago
NEWTON, Kan. (AP) - A south-central Kansas police department is trying to utilize analytical software to help its officers patrol more effectively and lower the city's high crime rate. The predictive policing software calculates where crimes are likely to happen after being fed crime reports and other statistics. But Newton Police Department Lt. Bryan Hall says it ...

10 years ago
FORT RILEY - A Fort Riley Soldier killed in a motorcycle accident last week has been identified. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Benjamin F. Locke, 40, was involved in a Dec. 10 collision in Junction City, Kansas. He was transported to Geary Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Locke was assigned as a platoon leader in Troop A, 1st Squadron, ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas officials have sent President Barack Obama a letter protesting the possible move of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. The letter Monday said moving terrorism suspects to northeast Kansas would jeopardize families, schools and local businesses. All six members of the state's congressional delegation signed the ...

10 years ago
A group of Fort Riley soldiers are coming home from deployment in time for Christmas. According to the Army, more than 20 Soldiers with the 541st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, are set to return soon from a nine-month deployment to Kuwait. While deployed, the battalion’s Soldiers were responsible for planning, oversight and ...

10 years ago
Overcrowding remains a concern at the Saline County Jail. The jail, which has 172 male beds and 20 female beds, is routinely at or over capacity. On Monday, it was 26 males and 22 females over capacity. While more space is needed, taxpayers are reluctant to support expansion of the facility. A jail expansion plan was defeated ...

10 years ago
Three more people from the latest list of Salina's Most Wanted have been arrested. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went online back on December 5th. Since then six have been caught. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office the latest arrests include Christopher Crotzer, Jami Ingram, and Alexander Reyna. They were wanted for felony drug ...

10 years ago
UPDATE: Salina police are looking for a Hispanic male who weighs 25-280 pounds. On the day of the robbery, he was wearing jeans and a black coat with his hood up. He threatened the clerk at the front counter with pepper spray. Salina Police are investigating a Saturday morning robbery. Officers were called at around 6:30 ...

10 years ago
Police Log 12-14-15 A 45-year-old Salina man is victim to an aggravated assault that happened Sunday. He was threatened with a knife by a known suspect at his residence on the 800 block of North Street. A 13 Seer AC Unit was stolen from a residence owned by Wells Fargo sometime between May and December. The total ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was arrested last night after racking his gun at a stoplight at his acquaintance in another car. Joeseph Graybeal, 20 of Salina, was driving on the 100 block of East Crawford when he racked his gun at a 21-year-old acquaintance. The acquaintance quickly contacted police and gave a vehicle description. Graybeal was located promptly ...

10 years ago
UPDATE: One of four suspects involved in a string of thefts at multiple Walmart locations along I-70 is in Saline County Jail. Amanda Forster, 30 of Knoxville, TN, was booked in to Saline County yesterday after she was released from Ellis County Jail shortly after incarceration on December 11. Forster and the other three suspects were ...

10 years ago
Salina police are investigating an aggravated battery in the Chapel Ridge Apartments. A resident in the apartments had two acquaintances over, when they began to beat him. One was wearing a set of brass knuckles, and beat the victim in the back of his head, giving him five lacerations about two inches in length to the ...