12 years ago
A Rock and Roll Hall Fame band and a popular comedian are coming to Salina. Legendary rockers Heart will take the stage this fall. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, along with their band, will perform at the Stiefel Theatre on Friday, Ocotber 24th. The band, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

12 years ago
The Department of Veterans Affairs says 110 Kansas veterans are waiting for appointments at VA hospitals and clinics for 90 days or more.  An additional 977 veterans in Kansas who have enrolled in the VA health care system during the past 10 years have never had appointments. The audit released Monday shows 104 patients are on ...

12 years ago
Police find a man sleeping inside a business - after he allegedly shattered the glass door to get in. Officers arrested 20-year-old Joshua Hatfield of Salina, after finding him asleep on the carpet inside the offices of Wilson and Company, 1700 E. Iron, on Sunday morning at 7:37am. Police say he apparently fell asleep after opening a ...

12 years ago
The largest teachers' union in Kansas is promising to file a state court lawsuit challenging the Legislature's decision to add policies backed by conservative Republicans to an education funding bill this year. The Kansas National Education Association announced its plans Monday. General Legal Counsel David Schauner said the lawsuit will be filed by the end of ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman is jailed after allegedly striking a man with an axe. Officers were called to the 700 block of N. Front after an argument turned violent in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police arrived at the home at 2:10am to find a 59-year-old man with an inch long gash bleeding on the right side ...

12 years ago
Police arrest a Wichita couple for going on a spree with stolen credit cards in Salina. According Captain Mike Sweeney, 41-year-old Christopher Sampson and 32-year-old Elizabeth Sampson were arrested on Sunday night after they allegedly removed a wallet from a woman's shopping cart at the Dillons Grocery Store at 2350 Planet Ave, then used a credit ...

12 years ago
A Salina man and his son found the Smoky Hill River Festival Medallion early Monday morning. On the 11th day of the Festival Quest, Billy Taylor and his 16-year-old son Nick found the medallion. It was located on a one-way sign in an alley behind the the Smoky Hill Museum. The medallion was in the shape ...

12 years ago
The Dillon Nature Center in Hutchinson is planning its first major upgrades since its hands-on indoor exhibits were installed 15 years ago. The changes will be installed in August, with the complete project expected to be finished by early September. The nature center is conducting a $300,000 capital campaign to fund the projects. The project will include ...

12 years ago
An Oklahoma woman says she is heartbroken after a ground-level plaque for one of her two infant sons buried in a Topeka cemetery has been removed after three decades. Angela Hudson says both of her sons' graves have been marked with plaques since the 1970s, but her sister visited the graves on Memorial Day and found ...

12 years ago
Four people are hurt when their car hits a disabled vehicle on Interstate 135 in McPherson County late Sunday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a small passenger car was disabled and unoccupied in the road after hitting a deer. The unoccupied car was hit by two other vehicles. No one was hurt in the first ...

12 years ago
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of an experimental plane crash that killed two men. The plane crashed shortly after taking off Sunday morning in a field west of the Great Bend Municipal Airport. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victims as 49-year-old Roger Brining of Great Bend and 24-year-old Daniel Bishop of Clearfield, ...