11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating widespread damage to area mailboxes. Deputies were called to sixteen different homes after the mailboxes were dented or completely knocked off the post by someone who was swinging a baseball bat or stick. The vandalism occurred sometime between Saturday night from 8pm to Sunday morning at 7:30am. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells ...

11 years ago
An evening meal turns violent at a Salina restaurant. Police arrested 19-year-old Alexander J. O'Brien on Saturday after an altercation inside the Hong Kong Buffet, 2515 Market, around 8pm. According to Captain Chris Trockeck, a Salina couple had befriended a homeless man from Oregon who landed in Salina after being kicked off a Greyhound Bus. Police say O'Brien ...

11 years ago
It's been decades since Greensburg offered people a movie theater. That will change this month when the Twilight Theater opens, about 25 years after it closed and eight years after a tornado destroyed most of the Kiowa County town. Grand opening events are scheduled for April 24-25. The theater opened in 1917 and was a hub of activity ...

11 years ago
State wildlife officials say chronic wasting disease has spread to six counties in southwest Kansas. The disease, which is fatal to deer and elk, had already been found in three northwest Kansas counties. So far, the disease had not been passed to humans or livestock. Counties where new cases of the disease have been found are Gray, ...

11 years ago
The retrial of a Kanoplis man convicted of a fatal stabbing at a Salina bar back in 2003 begins its second week Monday in Saline County District Court. Jerry Bird of Salina was stabbed in the heart at the Red Kitten Bar, which was located on Holiday Drive in Salina, on February 8th, 2003. Bird died ...

11 years ago
Kansas is honoring the place where its famous state song was written by designating a nearby road as the Home on the Range Highway. Gov. Sam Brownback's office says he signed a bill last week to bestow the designation on K-8 highway in Smith County. The new law takes effect July 1. The designation applies from the ...

11 years ago
A Kansas state senator is proposing a bill intended to ensure that school districts can't remove current students who live outside their boundaries. But critics say Republican Sen. Ty Masterson's bill is a solution in search of a problem. They claim it doesn't address the main reason behind some districts limiting new, transfer students — budget ...

11 years ago
K-State Salina is set to celebrate its golden anniversary. According to the school, the Kansas State University Salina campus established itself on the educational landscape in 1965, and the university will honor its 50 years of tradition starting April 11 with a kickoff to the golden anniversary celebration at the K-State Salina Open House. From 9 a.m. ...

11 years ago
Texas grocery chain H-E-B is pulling all Blue Bell Ice Cream from store shelves as a precaution after a recall of some of the ice cream maker's products that were connected to three deaths in Kansas. H-E-B, with more than 300 stores in Texas and northern Mexico, said the decision Saturday was a "precautionary measure due ...

11 years ago
The retrial is underway in Douglas County for a man accused of strangling his wife so he could collect $300,000 in life insurance money. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 56-year-old Martin Miller is charged with first-degree murder in the July 2004 death of his 46-year-old wife, Mary Miller. His 2005 conviction was overturned last year. Martin Miller's ...

11 years ago
A Kansas woman will be resentenced for using a car to strike and kill the father of her child. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that a Kansas Court of Appeals panel on Friday vacated a 25-year sentence for Jennifer Bennett. She was 21 in September 2012 when she drove a car over a sidewalk and into a ...