11 years ago
It's a sign of the season. The Salina Salvation Army Kettle Campaign began this week. The Kettle Campaign is the organization's single largest fundraiser. It funds local Salvation Army programs throughout the year. Red kettles and bell ringers this year are stationed at 17 locations around Salina. Bell ringers will be out accepting donations through December 24th. According ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after a small amount of meth is found in his home. According to Lt. Bill Cox, police were alerted to an upswing in purchases of pseudoephedrine made by 32-year-old Matthew W. Brewer this week at a pharmacy. State law allows citizens to buy 9-grams of the stimulant before local police are notified ...

11 years ago
Between 4:00 PM on October 5, 2014 and 7:00 AM on October 6, 2014 a burglary was committed at 2580 S 9th. An enclosed trailer owned by Wayne Holmes Basement, Inc. was forcibly entered and several items were removed. These items include a Stihl cutoff saw, two Diamond saw blades, one laser level, ...

11 years ago
An Ottaw County metal finishing business and its owner are planning to change their pleas to charges accusing them of dumping untreated wastewater into a city sewer system. A notation filed Thursday shows C & R Plating and its owner, Kevin L. Cline, both of Minneapolis, Kan., have a change-of-plea hearing on Dec. 8 before U.S. ...

11 years ago
The University of Kansas is offering a military mental health first aid course. The course is designed to help active military members, veterans, their families and people who work with them recognize and respond to signs of mental illness. The free class is planned for Saturday at the Lawrence campus. Participants will receive certification as a Mental ...

11 years ago
After over a century in business, Alco is closing and liquidating everything. The corporate headquarters was formerly located in Abilene, but in 2013 had moved to Texas. Employees of the Abilene Alco store that remains were notified of the decision earlier this week. According to information from the SB Capital Group organization, after 113 years, Alco ...

11 years ago
Police have identified a man arrested in connection with the rape and severe burning of a woman who was found in park near Wichita State University. Police Lt. James Espinoza confirmed late Thursday that the suspect is 26-year-old Cornell McNeal of Wichita. It's unclear whether he has an attorney, and no one answered the phone at ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators are likely to consider diverting funds earmarked for highway projects to general government programs to help solve the state's budget problems. The chairmen of the House and Senate budget committee say such a step is an option as legislators work to close combined shortfalls of more than $714 million in the current and next ...

11 years ago
A lunch box with an iPhone stored inside is stolen from a break room at Tony's. Eric Ramirez told officers he left his lunch cooler with his house and car keys plus an iPhone 6 packed inside the container in a break room at Tony's Pizza on Wednesday afternoon. Police say sometime between 1:20pm and 4pm, someone ...

11 years ago
For the second time in two days an elderly driver has been injured in a crash involving a farm implement near Beloit. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a tractor pulling a swather and a 1998 Ford F 150 pickup truck were traveling south on K-14 Highway. The driver of the truck, 86-year-old Rex Henningsen of ...

11 years ago
A Manhattan man was hurt in a single-vehicle crash late Wednesday night when his truck went airborne over a creek bed and crashed into a tree. According to the Kansasa Highway Patrol, 57-year-old Michael Perry was driving a 2008 Ford F-350 pickup truck headed west in 6800 block of Anderson Avenue. The truck drifted across the ...