12 years ago
A 71-year-old Hill City woman has been charged with trespassing for entering the city animal shelter to care for dogs she felt weren't being treated properly. Melissa Scott pleaded guilty recently to trespassing at the city dog pound, where she said the dogs didn't have proper shelter from the sun and lacked water. She went ...

12 years ago
Car audio speakers are ripped from an SUV. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, sometime between Saturday at 6pm and Monday morning at 7am, someone broke the back window out of a 1999 Dodge Durango and removed two, 15-inch JVC speakers and boxes from inside. Police say the vehicle was parked on the lot at Marshall Motors, 3500 ...

12 years ago
Police are reviewing video from a Salina store after a computer is stolen. Police are looking for three suspects, 2 white males and a white female, after they allegedly stole a Microsoft Surface Tablet computer from Wal-Mart, 2900 S. 9th, on Monday morning at about 7:35am. Police say video shows a male cutting the anti-theft device from ...

12 years ago
Kansas has recently joined 30 other states in enrolling students in a federally funded program aimed at raising high school graduation rates and helping students prepare for college and careers. Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker says the Kansas State Department of Education had been hoping for several years to introduce the program, called Jobs for America's ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Cosmosphere has launched a website with a live webcam where viewers can track conservation work on the engines that powered NASA's Apollo moon mission. The Hutchinson museum said Monday it recently got confirmation that a serial number on a thrust chamber recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean shows the F-1 engine came ...

12 years ago
The recent spate of rainy weather has prompted Gov. Sam Brownback to revise the drought declaration in parts of Kansas. Brownback said Monday that 23 of the state's 105 counties are no longer considered in drought conditions. It marks the first time since July 2012 that conditions have improved enough to remove counties from the drought ...

12 years ago
Hot, windy conditions over the past week have helped dry out rain sodden fields across Kansas. The National Agricultural Statistics Service says Kansas farmers were able to catch up on haying and to spray herbicide to prepare fields for planting wheat. Most crops also benefited from the warmer temperatures. The agency's weekly update Monday said 1 percent ...

12 years ago
A new study forecasts that 69 percent of the water in the High Plains Aquifer in Kansas will be depleted within 50 years at current usage rates. The paper by researchers at Kansas State University was published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. It focuses on the ...

12 years ago
An elderly Ottawa County man is found guilty of rape and other sex crimes. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office, 79-year-old Bernard Orville Wallin of Minneapolis was found guilty of one count of rape, three counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and two counts of aggravated sexual battery by an Ottawa County jury. Wallin was ...

12 years ago
A select legislative committee has finished work on a proposal to amend the Kansas "Hard 50" prison sentence in the wake of a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The panel of House and Senate judiciary leaders voted Monday to recommend the bill's introduction when legislators meet next week in special session. The measure will be introduced ...

12 years ago
City Commissioners approve a tax increase, and criticize county commissioners calling them an "embarrassment". Monday evening Salina City Commissioners included a tax increase as part of the 2014 budget. Later in the meeting they criticized Saline County Commissioners calling them an "embarrassment". To begin their meeting on Monday, commissioners unanimously voted a mil levy increase of.75 mils ...