10 years ago
Salina Police are searching for a white male suspect who damaged an ATV while trying to steal it. Police are reviewing video from a parking lot camera at the Super 8 Motel at 705 W. Schilling Road. According to Police Sergeant Jim Feldman, on Sunday morning around 8:30am the suspect pulled up alongside a pickup parked at ...

10 years ago
A southwest Nebraska sheriff says a Kansas man was killed when a storm tossed his recreational vehicle. Hitchcock County Sheriff Bryan Leggott says 38-year-old Heath Erbert died when his fifth-wheel RV was picked up and slammed back to the ground in Stratton during Friday night's storm. Jan Sydow, who lived in a neighboring trailer, says Erbert was ...

10 years ago
Dodge City police say two people were shot to death at separate locations before the suspected gunman shot and wounded himself. Police say officers responding to a shooting Sunday in a hardware store parking lot found an adult male gunshot victim, who was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Officers responded a short time later ...

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Police are investigating after a 17-month-old child swallowed a marijuana pill in Wichita. According to Wichita police, officers were called to Wesley Medical Center Saturday morning to check on the welfare of a child. Authorities say the child's mother told officers she had left her child in the care of a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old ...

10 years ago
The daughter of a man who died after two hospital falls is suing Wesley Medical Center for $600,000. Donald Carlson passed away in 2013 at age 91. According to court documents obtained by the Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1WaVrzW), Carlson went to Wesley Medical Center after a car accident on Aug. 5, 2013. Carlson fell two days in ...

10 years ago
A recent audit showed that an eastern Kansas school district could save money by employing health aides instead of nurses. But the district's recent superintendent said nurses are worth the extra money because of the services they can provide. A Legislative Post Audit study of staffing and other practices at Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 showed the ...

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A teen from Assaria was involved in an ATV crash in rural Cloud County on Saturday. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 16-year-old Jacob A. Wespe was riding a Outlaw Polaris ATV, headed west on a rural road. He braked too hard, was tossed over the front of the ATV, and landed in a ditch. Wespe was ...

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A Salina man was in a crash that involved three motorcycles on Interstate 70 Saturday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 31-year-old Chad Haynes of Hays was riding a 2010 Harley Davidson motorcycle, headed east on I-70.  He collided with a 2003 Harley ridden by 19-year-old Riley Faris of Salina. Haynes’ motorcycle layed over the in ...

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The Kansas agency that regulates utilities has offered its classified employees a 7.5 percent raise if they agree to be removed from the state's civil service system. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 94 of the Kansas Corporation Commission's roughly 200 employees are classified staffers. The newspaper obtained the text of the email KCC human resources director Danelle ...

10 years ago
The 70th anniversary of V-J Day will be observed on the Eisenhower Presidential Library campus Saturday, August 15. On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as "Victory over Japan Day," or ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A thunderstorm that moved through Topeka early Saturday has left thousands without power. National Weather Service Meteorologist Chris Sanders said 50-60 mph wind gusts accompanied the storm, which hit Topeka at about 4:35 a.m. and moved to the east an hour later. The city received as much as 1.5 inches of rain. The ...