11 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after an argument turns violent. Salina Police arrested 55-year-old Clifford Rollins, after a disturbance at the Berschell Apartments on Christmas Eve. Police allege that Rollins and 31-year-old Marcus Samilton were arguing when Rollins hit him in the back of the head with a hammer multiple times. The victim was transported to Salina Regional ...

11 years ago
A high speed chase ends with a backyard arrest. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that early Saturday morning around 1:45am, a deputy saw a driver in a Ford 150 make a wide turn at the corner of Charles and S. 10th without signaling and then sped away when the officer attempted to pull him over. The ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in identifying the driver of a truck photographed in a gas theft. Deputies say someone in a white Chevy Silverado truck stole 90-gallons of unleaded gas from fuel tanks on a rural property in the 6000 block of W. Shipton Road. Anyone with information about this ...

11 years ago
Kansas officials say the state saw the lowest number of tornadoes this year in 25 years. The Wichita Eagle reports only 40 tornadoes were recorded so far in 2014. It's less than half of the state's 30-year average of 81. This year's figure also is the fourth-lowest total since tornado statistics began being kept in 1950. It's ...

11 years ago
A group that wants to lower fines for marijuana possession in Wichita says it has collected enough signatures on petitions to put the issue to a public vote in April. Esau Freeman, leader of Kansas for Change, says the group plans to present the petitions to election officials next week.  The same group was a few ...

11 years ago
Bitter cold will spread across Kansas as the day progresses Monday, and bring with it snow, According to the National Weather Service, arctic air will surge south across Kansas late Monday into Tursday, bringing some of the coldest air of the season. Highs on Tuesday will struggle to climb out of the teens across much of the ...

11 years ago
A newspaper analysis of court records in the county where the University of Kansas is located has found that alcohol-fueled acquaintance rape cases are challenging to prosecute. In the past 10 years, Douglas County juries convicted three rapists. In the cases, the rapists overpowered their victims, threatened them with weapons or broke into their homes. ...

11 years ago
Police suspect suicide in the death of a Fort Riley soldier at a shooting range in Kansas. A report from the Riley County Police Department says the 20-year-old man died of a gunshot wound Dec. 20 at Ogden's Best Gun Range. Police said they do not believe his death was accidental. The man had rented ...

11 years ago
The Obama administration is on the verge of proposing long-awaited rules for commercial drone operations in U.S. skies, but key decisions on how much access to grant drones are likely to come from Congress. Federal Aviation Administration officials have said they want to release proposed rules before the end of this month, but other government and ...

11 years ago
Farmers and ranchers across Kansas are wrapping a growing season marked by rapidly changing fortunes buffeted by weather and markets. The 2014 farming year in Kansas brought a meager winter wheat harvest before late spring rains eased drought conditions just in time to green up pastures and sustain bountiful fall crops of corn, soybeans and sorghum. Cattle ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has reversed the murder convictions of a Salina man who was convicted of killing two people, one during a burglary and another after an argument. Back in December of 2010 a Saline County jury convicted Willie Smith-Parker of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree intentional murder. The appeal was from the two prosecutions that ...