12 years ago
Preparations are underway for a Salina tradition, the Bill Fekas Family Christmas Dinner. Chef Bill Fekas had a dream 30-years ago to prepare and serve a free dinner for anyone who was alone on Christmas Day, "I wanted the idea so bad, just like when you want to buy a new car," he said. Fekas tells KSAL ...

12 years ago
Two rifles are stolen from a parked car. Salina Police are investigating after someone opened the trunk on a 2006 Chevy Malibu and removed 2 rifles. The owner told officers his car was parked on the street in the 400 block of S. College, and locked when someone entered it sometime between Monday night at 10pm and ...

12 years ago
An antique china cabinet is stolen from a rural property. Saline County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating after being contacted by the owner of a farmstead in the 1900 block of E. Gray Road. Deputies say the door on a storage shed was forced open sometime between November 30th and and December 17th. The china cabinet is 6-feet tall ...

12 years ago
Federal prosecutors plan to seek an indictment in their case against an airport worker accused in a suicide bomb plot in Kansas. The government told a magistrate judge last week that the case against Terry Lee Loewen would be presented Wednesday to a federal grand jury for indictment. The 58-year-old avionics technician was initially ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Department of Transportation has announced plans to close two highway rest areas near Russell to reduce water consumption. KDOT says it wants to hear from the public on the plan before it closes the eastbound and westbound rest areas east on Interstate 70 of Russell. The preliminary decision to close the rest ...

12 years ago
A former Saline County Sheriff's Deputy is facing rape charges for alleged sexual molestation of a girl under the age of 16. Wichita Police arrested 40-year-old Glenn Lippard, 827 E. Magnolia, in Wichita on Tuesday. According to Police Captain Mike Sweeney, Lippard was then transported to the Saline County Jail and is facing 12-counts of rape, ...

12 years ago
Two grand prize winning tickets were sold for the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. Two winning tickets were sold in the nearly $650 million Mega Millions drawing: one at a tiny newsstand in Atlanta, and the other more than 2,000 miles away in California. Mega Millions Executive Director Paula Otto says the lucky Georgia ...

12 years ago
The University of Kansas is using a $1.2 million federal grant to train speech language pathologists to work with American Indian children. The university announced receipt of the five year grant from the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the money will help pay for the Culturally Responsive Early Literacy Instruction ...

12 years ago
A Chinese scientist accused of taking seeds taken from a private Kansas research facility and passing them off to a visiting delegation from China will remain in federal custody at least until his next court appearance. Weiqiang Zhang, an agricultural seed breeder at a biopharmaceutical production facility in Junction City, is charged with conspiracy to steal ...

12 years ago
An anchorman for NBC's Wichita affiliate has been fired after accidentally uttering an expletive at the end of a newscast. The Wichita Eagle reports KSN weekend anchor Justin Kraemer muttered, "Let's get the (expletive) out of here," after Saturday's 10 p.m. newscast. The cameras had already cut away from the anchors, who had signed off, and ...

12 years ago
Saline County Commissioners approve a request by Sheriff Glen Kochanowski to exempt his office from citizens carrying concealed guns. The sheriff said that he is not trying to exempt his entire building from concealed guns, but rather just certain areas of the building. The sheriff would like concealed guns to still be allowed in the lobby, ...