12 years ago
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has again certified the Salina Police Department to send criminal statistics and incident reports via a digital format. SPD's Technical Support Supervisor Arlene Frederiksen tells KSAL News that the police department has been sending stats in a bundle of  paper to the K.B.I. through the mail over the past two years. Frederiksen ...

12 years ago
Kansas State Troopers had a busy Thanksgiving weekend. The Kansas Highway Patrol Tuesday released its Thanksgiving holiday activity. The reporting period for the holiday weekend ran from 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27, 2013, through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, December 1, 2013. During that time, the Patrol worked two fatal crashes, which resulted in two deaths. ...

12 years ago
A Salina man gets federal prison time in connection with a child pornography case. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, 32-year-old Justin S. Tatum has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography. Tatum pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing child pornography, related to two different investigations. In ...

12 years ago
Junction City police say a person was shot to death during a home invasion. A second person at the apartment suffered minor injuries and declined treatment. Junction City police Lt. Jeff Childs said in a news release that police and emergency medical personnel found the two people after they were called to the apartment early ...

12 years ago
After another mild day on Tuuesday, a big change in the weather is on the way. According to the National Weather Service, Central and Southeast Kansas will squeak out one more mild day before very cold Arctic air overspreads the area Wednesday into Thursday. It will feel more like Winter later in the week with some ...

12 years ago
University of Kansas police are looking for a man who reportedly tried to lure a 9-year-old boy into his car on the university campus. Police say the boy was on his way home Monday when the man tried to talk him into getting into the vehicle. The boy ran home and told his parents. The man is ...

12 years ago
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott are among the scheduled speakers for the Kansas Republican Party's annual convention in January. The two-day event will be Jan. 24-25 in Wichita. Hundreds of GOP elected officials and party activists are expected to attend. The Kansas GOP says Perry is scheduled to speak at a dinner ...

12 years ago
Governor  Sam Brownback has named a deputy Kansas secretary of agriculture to lead the department. Brownback said in a release Monday that Jackie McClaskey will succeed Dale Rodman as secretary of the state's Agriculture Department after Rodman steps down Dec. 10. McClaskey has been with the department since January 2011, when she became an assistant secretary. She ...

12 years ago
A man held in connection with the deaths of a southeast Kansas mother and her three children has had his first court appearance. KWCH-TV reports that 22-year-old David Cornell Bennett Jr., of Cherryvale, appeared Monday in Labette County District Court through a video feed from the county jail. The judge found probable cause to continue holding Bennett ...

12 years ago
A Wisconsin truck driver who joined a cyberattack on Wichita-based Koch Industries has been sentenced to two years' probation for the onslaught that briefly took the company's website offline. Eric Rosol, of Black Creek, Wis., was also ordered Monday to pay $183,000 in restitution for taking part in the attack on Koch Industries. He pleaded guilty ...

12 years ago
A group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing a Kansas middle school of violating a student's free speech rights by prohibiting the student from posting fliers about a prayer event. The lawsuit was filed in Kansas City, Kan., by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian group that advocates for religious rights. The suit contends the Robert ...