11 years ago
A Salina organization that cooperates with multiple agencies in treating substance abuse is a little closer toward a fundraising goal that will make a planned expansion project a reality. The Central Kansas Foundation announced Wednesday a $200,000 donation from the Mabee Foundation in support of their Pathfinder@50 Capital Campaign. The Mabee Foundation offered the challenge grant ...

11 years ago
A woman calls for help after a domestic dispute turns violent. Police officers were called to the 400 block of S.8th just after 9pm on Tuesday evening after an argument between three roommates escalated. Police arrested 21-year-old Camryn Culifer after he allegedly pointed a pellet pistol at a male and female inside the home. There were no injuries. Culifer ...

11 years ago
The Salina Police Department is promoting two longtime officers to the rank of Sergeant. In a news release, Chief Brad Nelson has announced that Sean Furbeck and Gary Hanus will be promoted on Friday to Sergeant and assigned to the Patrol Division. Furbeck is a 25-year veteran of SPD and has worked as a Patrol Officer, Field ...

11 years ago
A Salina man was hurt in a head-on crash early Wednesday morning that killed another man. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 55-year-old Gerald Wolken from Greeley, Kansas, was driving a 1988 Ford F 250 pickup truck headed west on Kansas 68 Highway. He swerved left of center and hit an oncoming semi head-on. Wolken was pronounced ...

11 years ago
Kansans spent more than a million dollars more last year to buy lottery tickets than they did the previous year. But revenues were down at two of the state's three casinos. The Kansas Lottery's report to the Legislature Tuesday shows sales of lottery tickets totaled $245.7 million last year. That is the second-highest amount in the 27-year ...

11 years ago
Kansas farm groups are planning to gather next month for their annual Commodity Classic convention. The free event begins at 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 6 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan. Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Jackie McClaskey will be speaking at a joint morning session with the Women Managing the Farm conference. Other speakers include Chris Standlee, ...

11 years ago
A man will face a capital murder charge when he is tried next year in the fatal shooting of a Topeka police officer. Ross Preston Lane was bound over for trial after a preliminary hearing Tuesday in the death of Topeka police Cpl. Jason Harwood. The trial was scheduled for Jan. 11. Coroner Charles Charles Glenn testified ...

11 years ago
Although falling gas prices are reducing the amount of oil severance taxes Kansas is expected to collect, state lawmakers say there's a bright spot to the otherwise dim projections. Residents will have more money in their pockets to spend on other things. Kansas Legislative Research Department economist Chris Courtwright appeared Tuesday before the House Appropriations Committee. ...

11 years ago
Among other things, the Saline County Commission reorganized when the new 5-person board met for their first scheduled meeting Tuesday. Monte Shadwick is the new commission chair, Jim Gile is the vice-chair, and John Price is the secretary. After discussing reorganization, commissioners then discussed, and were briefed on how the board has traditionally operated. The new 5-person ...

11 years ago
An annual report says the Kansas birth rate in 2013 was the lowest since the state began keeping birth records in 1912. The Wichita Eagle reports an annual vital statistics reports says the Kansas rate was 13.4 per 1,000, a drop of 4.3 percent from 2012. Kansas State professor Laszlo Kulcsar, a demographer, says many people are ...

11 years ago
Kansas State Fair officials have begun the process of forming a new master plan to address renovations at the aging fairgrounds. Fair Manager Denny Stoecklein says the plan could address issues such as a rarely-used racetrack to updating the Depression-era Bison Arena and an Expo Center built in the 1960s. The last master plan was approved by ...