12 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 ...

12 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 ...

12 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 ...

12 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 ...

12 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 ...

12 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. ...

12 years ago
A child was found following an abduction that prompted an Amber Alert in multiple states including Kansas. Authorities say the infant has been found unharmed after she was abducted in Oklahoma. The Kingfisher County Sheriff's Department says the 5-month-old girl was found "safe and sound" early this morning. A dispatcher could not immediately say where the ...

12 years ago
A Washington-area group with ties to veteran Republican operatives is spending at least $246,000 on radio and television advertisements in Kansas praising Gov. Sam Brownback in the final weeks before the state's primary election. The Alliance for Freedom ads are scheduled to run statewide on radio and cable and broadcast television through the Aug. 5 primary. ...

12 years ago
Kansas health officials have issued warnings for seven lakes around the state because of toxic algae. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a release Thursday that high levels of toxic blue-green algae have been found at Chisolm Creek Park Lake in Sedgwick County, Marion Reservoir, Memorial Park Lake in Barton County, Milford Reservoir ...

12 years ago
A Republican group wants a Kansas state representative to apologize for characterizing GOP politicians supporting a Democratic candidate as "nursing home" residents. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis announced earlier through Republicans for Kansas Values that dozens of former and current GOP officials endorsed him rather than likely GOP nominee Gov. Sam Brownback in the 2014 election. The ...

12 years ago
The Saline County Commission voted 2-1 Wednesday to place a proposed renovation and expansion of the jail on the November 4th ballot. Commissioners Jim Gile and John Price voted in favor of the move - to let residents decide whether to fund a blueprint that would combine a 344 bed jail with court services and county ...