13 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 ...

13 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 ...

13 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 ...

13 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 ...

13 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 ...

13 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after 6 vehicles were damaged by vandals over the weekend. Police say damage occurred in the 1800 and 1900 blocks of South 4th sometime between 10pm on Saturday night and 7:30am on Sunday morning. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, 4 vehicles had the driver side mirror broken off while two other cars had ...

13 years ago
A Salina-area homeschool group is hosting an Ice Cream Social on Monday evening. According to Renee Rivera, Co-op Director with Smoky Valley Home Educators (SVHE), homeschooling has grown around the nation as an alternative to public education, "We have 50 to 70 families that are actual members," she said. Rivera tells KSAL News that her family chose ...

13 years ago
A Lawrence man has finally received the Olympic medal he won more than a decade ago for Nigeria. Jude Monye was told five years ago he'd won the gold medal as a member of a track relay team in 2000 at the Sydney Olympics. The U.S. team won the gold for that race but was ...

13 years ago
A woman wanted on an active warrant in Cloud County, is arrested after an altercation at a Salina Bar. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, 45-year-old Lori Saey was arrested on Friday night after allegedly pulling out a BB hand gun and pointing it at another woman. Police say patrons grabbed the Colt Defender BB gun and held ...

13 years ago
A man has been sentenced to probation for stealing a statue from Wichita State more than 25 years ago. Mitchel R. Potter of Lamar, Mo., has pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property in connection with the 1987 theft of a bronze bust of poet Robert Frost from WSU. Potter, who was not a student at ...

13 years ago
A seller on Craigslist falls victim to a fraudulent check. Salina Police are investigating a theft by deception case after 19-year-old Amethyst Travelbee of Salina sold a lift chair recliner on the website Craigslist. Police say the chair was listed for $250, and the buyer sent a check to the woman for $1,450. The buyer ...