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, ...

12 years ago
Correctional officers were searching for a minimum security inmate who was reported missing from his work site over the weekend. 43-year-old Christopher Ward was discovered missing around 5:30 p.m. Saturday from his work site at Cal-Maine Industries. The Hutchinson Correctional Facility inmate was incarcerated for convictions for burglary, theft, aggravated burglary, fleeing and eluding, and aggravated escape ...

12 years ago
Student government leaders at the University of Kansas say they are disappointed that the university is shifting some prized seats in Allen Fieldhouse from students to donors after the Student Senate eliminated a $25 student fee. The university's athletics department is moving students from seats behind the bench and near the tunnel where Kansas basketball players ...

12 years ago
Two people are dead after their single-engine airplane crashed into a central Kansas field not long after takeoff. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victims as a 49-year-old Great Bend man and a 24-year-old man from Utah. Both died a the scene. The patrol says the Pottier P70 crashed at 11:33 a.m. Sunday in Barton County after ...

12 years ago
A retired FedEx jet has found a new home and purpose as a classroom for Liberal students to learn math and science in southwest Kansas. The donated Boeing 727, which was built in 1979 and also had a career as a passenger jet, will be called the Liberal Learning Jet. The jet named "Alina" arrived Thursday at ...