11 years ago
A former Salina city building official has been convicted in California of poisoning his wife to death 20-years ago. Jurors on Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court found 57-year-old Paul Curry guilty of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Curry killed his 50-year-old wife, Linda, to collect more than half a million dollars in life insurance and benefits after she died. Prosecutor Ebrahim ...

11 years ago
Salina Police have identified a suspect in a forgery case dating back to June. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, police were contacted on Monday about a phony check that was cashed at the Dillon's Grocery Store on E. Cloud on June 18th for the amount of $900. Captain Sweeney tells KSAL News that the check had letterhead ...

11 years ago
The animals at Rolling Hills Zoo will receive a special blessing this week. According to the zoo, on Saturday the Rev. Robert Nelson Smith, President and CEO of Saint Francis Community Services, will perform a blessing of the animals. Father Bobby will visit the tigers, apes, anteaters, aardvarks, camels, rhinos, giraffes, Andean bears, lions, the animals ...

11 years ago
The University of Kansas is considering construction of $51 million residence hall to house an expected increase in international students. The university says the 500-bed residence hall would be built next to Oliver Hall. It would include a new dining center for the existing and new residence halls. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the school currently has ...

11 years ago
After three years of mostly fundraising and labor, the cabin in northern Kansas where the lyrics for "Home on the Range" were written will be officially rededicated this weekend. The cabin in Smith County was the home of Brewster Higley in the 1870s. While living there, he wrote a poem called "My Western Home," which ...

11 years ago
Botanica in Wichita has raised more than $1.5 million to install a Chinese garden, which is now under construction. Director Marty Miller says the garden, which was scheduled to open this fall, will be delayed until next spring. Botanica officials say the next project will be aimed at raising about $500,000 to refurbish a merry-go-round from the ...

11 years ago
The owner of a no-kill rescue organization has been found guilty of violating Topeka's dangerous dogs ordinance after a German shepherd fatally mauled a teacup poodle at this year's St. Patrick's Day parade. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/YIZREa ) reports Jan Price, leader of Saving Death Row Dogs, was fined $250 and ordered to pay $500 in ...

11 years ago
Two groups are offering up to $5,000 for information leading to a conviction in the shooting of seven American white pelicans in Kansas earlier this month. The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust announced the reward Monday. The federally protected birds were shot in September at the ...

11 years ago
A Dickinson County man admits to embezzling railroad union funds. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, a former secretary-treasurer of a railroad union pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling union funds. 62-year-old Dale T. Hull of Herington, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzling union funds. In his plea, Hull admitted the crime occurred while he ...

11 years ago
A Topeka man who police say was naked and bloody before his arrest is charged with premeditated first-degree murder in this girlfriend's death. Shawnee County District Court records show Trevor William Adkins was also charged Friday with misdemeanor counts of endangering a child and battery. He remains jailed Monday on $1 million bond in the death ...

11 years ago
Newton police say they are evacuating several downtown buildings after a suspicious device was found near a community corrections office. KAKE-TV reports police received a bomb threat to the corrections office early Monday and responding officers found a suspicious device in a planter outside the building. Evacuations have been ordered in a one block radius around the ...