12 years ago
Saline County Commissioners are poised to change a decision, and instead allow health department employees to retain vacation and sick leave time. As part of the Salina - Saline County Health Department becoming a county agency, all of the department's employees will become county employees. The animal shelter is becoming a city agency. Previously, both agencies ...

12 years ago
A federal panel says the KanCare takeover of long-term services for the developmentally disabled should be delayed. KanCare, the state's privatized program for the poor and disabled, is scheduled to begin providing those services Jan. 1. However, it needs a waiver from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services by Jan. 1. The National Council on Disability ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are searching for a stolen vehicle. Tracy Resley contacted police after his blue, 2001 Chevy Tracker was stolen. Police say sometime between Monday night around 11pm and Tuesday morning at 4:30am, someone entered his vehicle that was parked in the 700 block of Osage and drove away. The vehicle, which is valued at $5,000 has a ...

12 years ago
A stolen SUV is recovered after an Ogden man is arrested for theft. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an officer on patrol spotted a black Ford Explorer that matched the description of a vehicle driven by a man who allegedly stole a sandwich and soda from the Kwik Shop, 305 W. Schilling Road, early Monday morning. Police ...

12 years ago
Eight people on the December list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line back on December 7th. Since then, 8 have been arrested. Those arrested were wanted for crimes that include aggravated battery, felony battery of a corrections officer, making criminal threats, felony fleeing and eluding, endangering a child, ...

12 years ago
A pair of 15-year-old boys are hurt in a single vehicle crash involving a deer Monday evening in rural Barton County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 15-year-old Tyler Specht was driving a 1994 Chevrolet S10 Blazer when he swerved to miss a deer. The SUV went into the ditch, and over turned one time. Specht and ...

12 years ago
Two Wichita brothers who were sentenced to die for a quadruple homicide in December 2000 are taking their appeals to the Kansas Supreme Court. The court scheduled separate, two-hour hearings Tuesday for Jonathan and Reginald Carr. The brothers were convicted of shooting three men and a woman on Dec. 15, 2000, as the victims knelt on a ...

12 years ago
A new report ranks Kansas fourth in the nation when it comes to volunteering. The report was issued Monday by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that helps Americans engage in volunteer activities. The Volunteering and Civic Life in America report says nearly 37 percent of Kansas residents volunteered in 2012. That amounts ...

12 years ago
Two men will stand trial for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of a 27-year-old Salina woman. Twenty-five-year-old Joel Heil and 33-year-old Dane DeWeese, of Abilene, were bound over for trial Monday in the death of Kristin Tyler. The mother of four was missing two weeks last spring before her body was found ...

12 years ago
The Army - Navy football game this past weekend was extra special for a Salina couple. Retired Army veteran Bernard "Barney" King and his wife Mary were in Philadelphia for the big game. The Kings were the winners of a Salina Media Group contest where the prize was a trip to the game. Barney credits his ...

12 years ago
Salina Animal Shelter employees will not have to start over as new employees when they officially become City of Salina employees on January 1st. As part of the health department becoming a county agency, the animal shelter is becoming a city agency. Previously, both agencies were city - county shared. City commissioners Monday voted an exception for ...