11 years ago
Jefferson County officials say a 58-year-old man died after apparently falling into a grain bin. Sheriff Jeffrey Herrig says emergency crews were called Thursday afternoon to the farm of Mike Miller about eight miles west of Valley Falls. WIBW reports that Herrig says Miller fell into a grain bin and died before crews could rescue him. Details of ...

11 years ago
Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to stay a judge's preliminary injunction against the state enforcing its gay-marriage ban. The state attorney general's office filed the request Thursday with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, a day after appealing a ruling from U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree. The judge ruled in lawsuit filed ...

11 years ago
Authorities say an 83-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in northeast Kansas after he got out of the vehicle to check on an injured deer. Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn says Joe Knitter, of Clay Center, died in the accident early Friday on U.S. 24. Dunn says Knitter's wife hit a deer. He got out ...

11 years ago
Burglars break into a Salina business. Police say someone pulled back sheet metal panels on an exterior wall to gain entrance into Midwest Gutter, 248 N. College, sometime between 7pm Wednesday evening and Thursday morning at 7am. Thieves took a cordless drill, five tape measures and 300 blank business checks from inside. Total loss and ...

11 years ago
A potpourri investigation that began in August ends with the arrest of a Saline County man. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that chemicals in a potpourri mix - found at a home near Assaria this summer tested positive for banned substances by a KBI lab. Deputies arrested 24-year-old David E. Forsberg on Thursday for possession of ...

11 years ago
One person is hurt in a crash near Hays early Friday morning involving a Salina woman. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2006 Chevy Cobalt driven by 22-year-old Hope Yeager of Ellinwood was headed west on Interstate 70. Yeager hit a deer carcass in the road, and sideswiped a semi. The semi driver, 48-year-old ...

11 years ago
Between 12:30 PM on October 4, 2014 and 7:30 AM on October 6, 2014 forced entry was used to commit a burglary at Roberts Welding, 252 S. Broadway. A white 2001 Dodge Ram 3500 Flatbed Truck was taken. Attached to the bed of the pickup were two white toolboxes, a Miller Welder, cutting ...

11 years ago
Police are searching for two suspects who took nearly 30 weapons from a Wichita business. Surveillance images show the two suspects breaking display cases at Knapp Weaponry early Tuesday and leaving with both handguns and rifles. Owner Marlon Knapp says the guns were worth more than $14,000. Knapp says he is upset that the ...

11 years ago
A 27-year-old suspect in a Kansas homicide has been detained in Mexico, where police say he fled after the killing. Police said efforts are underway to extradite Gabino Ruiz-Ascencio to the U.S. for questioning in the April 2013 death of 25-year-old Adrian Peralta in Emporia. Police said Wednesday that Ruiz-Ascencio was arrested in Zacapu, in the state ...

11 years ago
A 28-year-old man is accused of burglary after a Wichita woman found him eating cookie dough from her refrigerator freezer in the early morning hours. The Wichita Eagle reports the woman came out of her bedroom shortly before 3:30 a.m. Thursday and found the stranger in her kitchen. Wichita police spokesman Lt. James Espinoza says the man ...

11 years ago
Officials in a south-central Kansas community expect a petroleum company to begin drilling for oil on city land sometime soon. The Arkansas City Traveler reports the City Commission approved a conditional-use permit this week for exploration and extraction of oil on two parcels zoned for agricultural use. The permit will allow Gulf Exploration LLC to conduct vertical ...