11 years ago
Same-sex marriage is still not being allowed in Kansas, but that could soon change. The Sedgwick County Courthouse is turning away same-sex couples seeking to get a marriage license in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that clears the way for such unions. The Saline County Courthouse is doing the same. Kerry Wilks and Donna ...

11 years ago
Sentencing for a former middle school counselor convicted in a sex case involving a student was delayed Monday afternoon in Saline County District Court. Back in June Brooke Dinkel was found guilty of sex crimes involving a 13-year-old student. A jury found the 33-year-old former Smoky Valley Middle School Counselor guilty of two counts of rape. ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a fire as an arson. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that patrol units and Salina Fire crews responded to a structure fire at 500 E. Pacific on Sunday morning around 12:20am. Police say the garage sustained $1,000 damage. There were no injuries reported.

11 years ago
A duffel bag is stolen from a car trunk as a man prepares for a trip. Saline County Sheriff's Deputies were called to 207 E. Borgmeyer Road on Friday night after 51-year-old Douglas Jarvis noticed his black duffel bag containing pearl cufflinks, with a matching tie tack missing. Jarvis told officers he was going back and forth ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating several incidents of vandalism around town. Police say vandals spray painted obscenities and designs at five addresses between 5:30pm Saturday and Sunday morning around 10am. Damage was done to garage doors, and two fences in the 900 block of South Santa Fe. A fence was also spray painted in the 100 block ...

11 years ago
Kansas school kids are not likely to dismissed for "tornado days". Officials in Oklahoma have been talking about whether to institute "tornado days" in which classes would be called off when the threat of tornadoes is unusually high. Their Kansas counterparts say they haven't even considered such a move, which could create more problems than ...

11 years ago
A motorcycle rider wakes up cold in a ditch after a crash on Friday night. The Saline County Sheriff's office says 25-year-old Paul Bennett of Enterprise was northbound on New 81-Highway riding his 2006 Suzuki when he rolled down the off ramp and failed to stop at K-143 Highway. He was thrown off the bike as it ...

11 years ago
Police say a Wichita man has been hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in the face during a dispute about marijuana. Sgt. John Ryan says the shooting happed Saturday night in southeast Wichita. The say a police helicopter helped locate a suspect, who was taken into custody later that night. No charges were reported. Ryan says the ...

11 years ago
The BTK serial killer says in a letter from prison that he's cooperating with a book about the 10 killings he committed from 1974 to 1991 in the Wichita area. Dennis Rader is serving a life sentence for the killings. His self-coined moniker was BTK, which stood for "bind, torture, kill." The Wichita Eagle reports that Rader ...

11 years ago
State records show that fewer irrigators are pumping more than they are allowed but that the issue remains a problem. The Hutchinson News reports that 114 water right holders received a first-offense warning of civil penalties so far this year for overpumping in 2013. Another 70 irrigators were warned a second, and, for a few, a ...

11 years ago
The southeast Kansas town of Galena is shedding ten employees and raising taxes to correct a budget shortfall. The Joplin Globe reports that Mayor Dale Oglesby says the city had a $260,000 cash shortfall. After the 2011 Joplin tornado, the city's construction and demolition landfill brought in additional revenue that was used to keep the mill ...