12 years ago
Officials from the largest electric utility in Kansas are vowing to press on with its request for $31.7 million in rate hikes for some customers across the state, including plans to modify rates for low-income customers. Westar Energy Inc. is asking the Kansas Corporation to approve the request, which would shift the burden of rates ...

12 years ago
A 17-year-old female is arrested after allegedly attacking a Salina man with a knife. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, officers interviewed 28-year-old Cory Lowe at Salina Regional Health Center Sunday morning. Lowe told police he woke up in his motel room at the Village Inn, 453 S. Broadway, to find 17-year-old Taren McGaha slashing at him with ...

12 years ago
Two prominent Salina business persons have been selected to be inducted into the 2013 class of the Salina Business Hall of Fame. According to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, the new inductees are: Ward Marshall, founder of Marshall Motor Company, (Historic Category 1926-1975); and Karl Stutterheim, retired Chairman of the Board and CEO, Kasa Companies. ...

12 years ago
A Salina Elementary School briefly goes into heightened security Monday morning. According to USD 305, police officials directed that Schilling elementary go into heightened security. This is when staff lock the school doors and monitor anyone entering the building. SPD's Lt. Scott Siemsen tells KSAL News that a Salina man in his 50's - had poured gasoline ...

12 years ago
Heavy rain and lightning brought an early end to this year's Kansas State Fair. Fair officials closed the midway early Sunday, the last day of the fair, because of flooding and lightning. However, the Toby Keith concert went on as scheduled Sunday night when the rain subsided. Many fairgoers waded through a foot of water on the ...

12 years ago
Police say a man is in custody after he allegedly broke into a home and groped a 10-year-old girl and two 9-year-olds. Hutchinson Police Lt. John Moore says the girls' father chased 21-year-old Tyler Lee Ford from the home and police later found him walking in the area. Officers responding to the call in Hutchinson found the ...

12 years ago
Three people are hurt in a single-vehicle rollover crash. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 24-year-old Jonathan Berens of Russell was driving a Saturn Vue west on K 140 Highway. The car left the road on the north side. It came back onto the highway, crossed the center line, and left the road on the south ...

12 years ago
A Salina man is hurt in a weekend motorycle crash. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 56-year-old David Wallace was riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle north on I-135 at too high a rate of speed.  After making an unsafe turn, he was not able to negotiate the ramp to I-70. The motorcycle left the road and rolled, ...

12 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan is preparing to inaugurate the 19th president of the University. According to the school, as part of homecoming festivities, on Friday, September 27, the Kansas Wesleyan community will gather to inaugurate the 19th president of the University, Dr. Matthew R. Thompson. Alumni of the 1940s will walk with the school's most recent graduates; pillars ...

12 years ago
The head of the Kansas Republican Party is vowing to deliver "a knockout punch" to Democrats in future elections. Kansas GOP Chairman Kelly Arnold spoke at luncheon Saturday of the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri. Arnold touted what he calls the "clean sweep campaign" intended to bolster the Republicans already commanding majorities in ...

12 years ago
A rodeo clown has performed for the first time since a controversial State Fair rodeo act that mocked President Barack Obama. The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports that rodeo clown Tuffy Gessling hammed it up for the crowd during a pro bull riding event Friday in Jefferson County. Beforehand, Gessling said everything has been very overwhelming and that ...