12 years ago
Salina Police are looking for two suspects who robbed a gas station at gunpoint. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, two men entered the Pump Mart, 1118 N. 9th just before midnight on Wednesday and pointed guns at the clerk before running out of the store with an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes. Police say both men ...

12 years ago
A group of students from Ell-Saline High School wil a statewide contest. According to the Kansas SecuritiesCommission Office, high school students across the state submitted video contest entries in hopes of winning prizes for themselves and their teachers. Students who are working toward or who have received EverFi Financial Literacy Certification through participation in the Kansas ...

12 years ago
A spokesman for the Kansas prison system says the agency was already planning to review the state's execution process before a botched execution in Oklahoma. Corrections Department spokesman Jeremy Barclay said Wednesday officials will consider which drugs will be used in lethal injections and steps in administering them as an execution nears. But Barclay said an execution ...

12 years ago
Kansas House and Senate budget negotiators have begun working on a spending agreement, casting aside a bleak revenue report that could undermine a rosier economic forecast leaders are using to justify higher spending. The talks began Wednesday evening, a few hours after the state Revenue Department reported that April's tax collections totaled $92 million less than ...

12 years ago
North Salina could soon be getting a grocery store. According to Salina City Commissioner Randall Hardy, a Save-A-Lot grocery store is proposed for a vacant building that formerly housed a Dillons grocery store at 511 East Iron Avenue. There are several financial partners in the project. Included as part of it, the City of Salina will ...

12 years ago
Drought conditions and seemingly unrelenting winds this week have whipped up massive dust storms across Kansas. The National Weather Service in Dodge City said Wednesday the windiest period is now over in the state as the system moves off into the Great Lakes and northeastern United States. Blowing dust is blamed for the zero-visibility conditions ...

12 years ago
A passenger bus collided with a pickup truck in western Kansas, killing one person in the pickup and injuring several people on the bus. The patrol says the accident happened early Wednesday as the Greyhound bus and pickup truck were headed east on Interstate 70 in Trego County. Patrol spokesman Tod Hileman says investigators ...

12 years ago
A former Salina law enforcement member is stepping out for a good cause. Dean Bonawitz met with members of the media Wednesday at the Saline County Sheriff's Office to spell out his plan, "I'm walking across Kansas to raise money for cancer research," he said. It's not the first time the 69-year-old prostate cancer survivor has put ...

12 years ago
A Salina couple is arrested for drugs after stopping for gas. A police officer on patrol recognized a Salina man who was wanted on a warrant for making a criminal threat, as he pulled into the gas pumps at the Casey's Convenience Store at 215 W. Crawford at about 9:40am Tuesday. Police say 28-year-old Alexander Reyna tried ...

12 years ago
A video shot during last week's "For Women Only" show is now available on-line. Last Thursday evening over 1,000 women crowded into Heritage Hall at the Salina Bicentennial Center for an evening just for them. Salina Media Group's annual event drew a large crowd, and as promised provided a full night of entertainment, prizes, and fun. ...

12 years ago
Supporters of public broadcasting in Kansas are concerned this could be the year that public funding for the operation ends. Gov. Sam Brownback's budget recommendation for the next fiscal year includes $600,000 for public broadcasting, down from $3.8 million in 2008. More lawmakers consider public broadcasting a target for cuts in a time ...