11 years ago
The company responsible for a recent natural gas pipeline accident that spewed a hazardous substance outside a small Kansas town has since 2006 faced more than $270,000 in federal penalties for problems elsewhere along its pipelines. A section of a Panhandle Eastern pipeline erupted June 19, spraying 1,300 gallons of natural gas condensate over a rural ...

11 years ago
County fair season is kicking off in Kansas, and it is important to ensure the health of animals, including exhibits in the poultry barn. According to the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Pullorum -Typhoid disease can affect chickens, turkeys, quail, guinea fowl, pheasants, peafowl, grouse, parrots, sparrows, ostriches and ring-necked doves. Last year, the KDA Division of ...

11 years ago
A large crowd gathered to celebrate, and to welcome a new grocery store to North Salina. Salina Downtown, Inc. and the North Salina Community Development Committee hosted a "Welcome to the Neighborhood" party Friday evening for the new Save A Lot grocery store to celebrate the beginning of the construction project. As officials ceremonial cut the ...

11 years ago
A man who was asked to leave a Salina movie theatre earlier this week was asked to leave not because he had a concealed gun, but rather because he threatened an employee with it. That's according to a statement from the theatre. The incident happened Tuesday morning at the Starplex Cinemas in the Central Mall. According to ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence for a man convicted of capital murder in the 2004 killings of a Great Bend woman and her boyfriend. The court Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing in Barton County District Court for Sidney Gleason. He faced lethal injection for the February 2004 killings of Miki ...

11 years ago
Police catch a man with a stolen computer in his car. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, staff at Wal-Mart, 2900 S. 9th, contacted police at about 6:30pm Thursday night after a man removed a Dell desk top computer and drove away. Using the vehicle's description police made a traffic stop around the corner of 4th and Jewell ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a pilot died when his crop dusting plane crashed in northwest Kansas. The patrol says the fixed-wing single-engine plane went down Friday morning in a field northeast of Ellis. The pilot was 23-year-old Garrett Moore of Oakley. The aircraft was an Air Tractor AT-401B spray plane owned by Frontier AG ...

11 years ago
Police arrest the driver of a truck who drove off from a traffic stop. Thursday evening just before midnight, an officer observed a 1988 Mazda pickup truck with an invalid temporary tag in the 800 block of Hancock and pulled the driver over. Captain Mike Sweeney says as the officer left his cruiser and approached the pickup ...

11 years ago
Sometime between May 24th-May 27th, unknown suspects entered a shop at Swindler Trucking, located at 1301-B West Diamond Drive and stole an aluminum colored California Pro CP 3/4" drive air wrench. Estimated Loss & Damages: $600.00 If you have any information concerning who committed this crime, call Crimestoppers at 825-TIPS, text SATIPS to CRIMES (274637), or visit www.pd.salina.org ...

11 years ago
The Agriculture Department is allowing emergency haying and grazing on Conservation Reserve Program acreage in 44 Kansas counties. Adrian Polansky is state executive director of the Kansas Farm Service Agency. He said Thursday the authorization provides relief for livestock producers who have suffered through severe drought. The drought has depleted hay supplies and affected the growth ...

11 years ago
Researchers at Kansas State University say their research and a recent change in bedbug fumigation will make it cheaper to get rid of the pests. A prepared statement from the university says bedbug infestations in the U.S. have grown and the bugs have developed a resistance to many insecticides. Entomology professor Tom Phillips specializes in fumigant gases. ...