10 years ago
A hay cutting swather is damaged by thieves. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a Case swather was damaged last week. Owner Brent Laas of Brookville told deputies on Friday he had left his machine in the 600 block of Reese and was cutting hay in the area of Fairchilds Road and Cloud when he ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a couple of unrelated assaults. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 21-year-old Dominic Grogans was walking up to his apartment early Monday morning around 3:15am when he was attacked by two men. The victim told officers he was hit in the head by a black man and another man described ...

10 years ago
Reno County health officials are taking steps to help stall the spread of a whooping cough outbreak before school starts. The county has more than 70 suspected whooping cough cases. And The Hutchinson News reports that as of Friday, Reno County had 41 confirmed or probable cases of whooping cough, which accounts for 20 percent of all ...

10 years ago
A number of tools are stolen from a trailer parked at a Salina store. Salina Police are investigating after someone cut a padlock on an equipment trailer at Harbor Freight, 1808 S.9th sometime between Thursday at 9:30pm and 6am Friday morning. Police report that a metal cutting band saw, two pneumatic air compressors, 3 miter saws and ...

10 years ago
An almost four month long arson investigation leads to the arrest of a Salina man. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 40-year-old Jason Wooster was taken into custody on Friday on a charge of arson. The arrest stems from a house fire on March 29th that investigators say was set intentionally with accelerant at 155 ...

10 years ago
A 16-year-old student at St. Francis Academy is now in juvenile detention in Junction City after an altercation with staff. Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that staff member Ronda Rees confronted the boy after she saw him throwing chairs in a third story dormitory at the school which is located at 5097 W. ...

10 years ago
A study shows that the Lawrence area had several of the top accident sites along the Kansas Turnpike. The 2010 Long-Term Needs Study compiled for the Kansas Turnpike Authority shows that six of the top nine accident spots on the 236-mile turnpike were in the Lawrence area, and two were on the I-70 stretch approaching Kansas ...

10 years ago
A 30-year-old woman has been arrested after Wichita police say she assaulted a police horse and two officers. The woman was arrested early Sunday morning. According to police spokesman Sgt. Bob Gulliver, officers were taking a person into custody for an unrelated disturbance in Old Town when the woman tried to interfere. Gulliver said the horse, which ...

10 years ago
For those not using the online process, it's enrollment time this week for USD 305. If you do not enroll online, you will need to enroll at your school building on July 28. Please be aware that enrollment at a building on July 28 will also use the computer-based, online process. Printed materials are no longer available ...

10 years ago
Some Kansas growers are carrying out experiments they helped design, evaluating questions such as how different varieties, seeding rates, nutrients and other variables work in the fields on their farms. It's a partnership with Kansas State University under a program launched last season. About 20 farmers are participating in the program. University agricultural experts help the farmers ...

10 years ago
Dodge City police say they have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a Garden City man. Police say the 32-year-old victim was found dead Saturday of multiple gunshot wounds. The Dodge City Daily Globe reports the victim's body was found in an alley behind the newspaper's office. The victim's name has not been released. A 26-year-old ...