12 years ago
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper faces multiple felony charges stemming from a domestic dispute with his wife. A complaint filed Friday charges 37-year-old Darrin Duane Hirsh of Great Bend with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of criminal threat, domestic battery, two counts of witness intimidation and two counts of violation of a ...

12 years ago
A Salina man is arrested months after a crash that killed an elderly person. Police arrested 50-year-old Dennis D. Campbell, 220 S. 7th Street, on Thursday in connection to an accident that occurred on September 9th, 2013. The crash happened in the 2100 block of Tulane and sent 93-year-old Eugene Olson to ICU at Salina Regional Health ...

12 years ago
The debut of the world's tallest water slide has been delayed for a third time and there's no word on when the Kansas City, Kansas, attraction will be ready for riders. Schlitterbahn Waterpark says Verruckt will not open as scheduled on Sunday. The park's news release, sent Thursday night, offers no explanation for the delay. Problems with ...

12 years ago
The U.S. Postal Service has conceded to the small central Kansas town of St. John. After complaints from residents, the postal service says the town's name will be changed in its database from Saint John to St John. However, it won't have the period behind the "S-T" because the service's database does not include any ...

12 years ago
The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit challenging the latest move by Kansas to allow construction of a $2.8 billion coal-fired power plant, partly because the state wouldn't regulate the plant's greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental group says in its filing Friday with the state Court of Appeals that the Kansas Department of Health ...

12 years ago
Shots fired from a high-powered rifle narrowly miss a woman asleep in bed. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that officers were called to 500 West Beloit Thursday night just after 11:30pm - after someone fired at least five shots that hit a house. One of the rounds went through a wall and then the mattress where ...

12 years ago
The U.S. Army says budget cuts could mean the loss of thousands of soldiers and employees at Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth. However, fort officials say the report released Thursday is a worst-case scenario and the reductions aren't likely to be as severe as predicted. The report said Fort Riley could lose 16,000 soldiers and civilian employees, ...

12 years ago
A man is facing four counts of sexual misconduct after prosecutors say he exposed himself and committed lewd acts in public places around town. The 33-year-old suspect was arrested Wednesday in the parking lot of a Kansas City coffee shop. Police say they were conducting surveillance on him because of previous incidents and saw him expose ...

12 years ago
A bicycle rider is hit by a truck and killed Thusday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 49-year-old Mark Jilka from Manhattan was riding a bicycle along K 177 Highway, headed south on the right shoulder of the road. He was hit from behind by a pickup truck that was also headed south. Jilka was killed ...

12 years ago
The reward is up to $100,000 for solving the 1999 disappearance of an 11-year-old southeast Kansas boy whose adoptive parents never reported him missing. An anonymous donor who wanted to see closure for the family of Adam Herrman put up a $50,000 cash reward in December. Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet announced Thursday that ...

12 years ago
Heavy equipment owned by a Salina car dealership is stolen. Police say someone removed a trailer and high-lift tractor from a lot at 1540 W. Schilling Road sometime during the overnight hours on June 18th. The equipment is owned by Long McArthur Ford and is described as a yellow, high-lift tractor of unknown make plus a 10-foot ...