12 years ago
Two more "Hard 50" prison sentences have been vacated by the Kansas Supreme Court and sent back to the lower courts, including one that was at the heart of a 2013 legislative special session. The rulings issued Friday by the court dealt only with whether the prison sentences of Matthew Astorga and Joaquin DeAnda were constitutional. ...

12 years ago
A Salina Police officer's thumb is broken while capturing a man running away from law enforcement. Officers were called to the 300 block of S. 11th on Thursday just before midnight after a concerned citizen called about suspicious behavior of a man in the area. Officers made contact with 25-year-old Ryan Kent of Salina on the street ...

12 years ago
Field work started this week in a project to clean up contamination in the Salina Airport Industrial Center. At issue is contamination, things like solvents that have seeped into the ground, left behind when the Air Force vacated the base. The area is now the Salina Regional Airport. The main concern is two large underground plumes ...

12 years ago
An investigation leads to charges against a gas station employee for sexual battery. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, a warrant was requested for 60-year-old Rasikbhi Mody, 1124 McAdams Road, after police interviewed a 17-year-old female who reported an incident last month at the Pump Mart at 1118 N. 9th. Police say that the female walked into the ...

12 years ago
The K-State Salina Flight Team has landed the prestigious honor of being recognized as the most outstanding all-around aviation program in the country — and has the trophy to prove it. For the first time in school history, the K-State Salina team was awarded the Loening Trophy at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association's SAFECON National Championship, ...

12 years ago
AAA Travel projects 36.1 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a 1.5 percent increase from the 35.5 million people who traveled last year. The agency says that about 3.1 million Americans in the region including Kansas will travel during Memorial Day weekend. The number of ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Corporation Commission has approved a Westar Energy rate increase to help pay for environmental projects. The approval on Thursday means residential customers who use about 900 kilowatt hours will pay about 67 cents more per month, for a total of $3.49 of each bill dedicated to environmental projects. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1tsEW33 ) Westar ...

12 years ago
A national association of journalism educators wants the Kansas Board of Regents to reverse the social media policy it finalized earlier this month. A recent statement from the president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication says the policy "restricts academic freedom" and interferes with the education of those seeking journalism careers. The regents ...

12 years ago
Kansas health officials are warning people to stay out of one lake and avoid direct contact with the water in two others because of high levels of toxic blue-green algae. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday issued a toxic algae warning for Memorial Park Lake in Barton County. The agency says humans, pets ...

12 years ago
A body found in a wooded area behind the Salina YMCA is believed to be a man who committed suicide. According to Salina Police, at 7:57 Wednesday evening medics and officers were sent to the fitness trails behind the YMCA in reference to an unresponsive person. First responders located an adult male deceased in ...

12 years ago
Police in Wichita say a report of a woman and her grandchildren living in a commercial storage unit was incorrect. KAKE-TV reports that after talking to the children's father, police said Thursday the grandmother had taken them to the unit while she was doing some work there. The incident began Wednesday morning when a driver reported seeing ...