13 years ago
A large tornado in Ottawa County Tuesday evening caused damage, but no reports of serious injuries. The first warning came just after 5:30. A severe thunderstorm quickly intensified into a supercell thunderstorm. The storm dropped a large tornado west of Interstate 135 in rural Ottawa County. The tornado moved very slowly, and at times was nearly stationary. ...

13 years ago
Four people died in an accident along I-70 in Ellsworth County Tuesday morning. The accident happened at 9:40 a.m. at mile marker 219. A Cadillac Escalade SUV crashed with a semi. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the semi was stopped on the side of the road and had its hazards on and had warning triangles placed behind ...

13 years ago
First responders from across Kansas are in Salina for a special training event this Wednesday and Thursday. According to the Kansas Adjutant General's Department, more than 230 people will be involved a two-day, large-scale training exercise at Crisis City on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Exercise participants will respond to a simulated, widespread disaster involving a ...

13 years ago
A Salina native is honored with a prestigious astronomy award. Professor John F Hawley, along with Professor Steven A Balbus, were both honored Tuesday as 2013 Shaw Laureates in Astronomy. The duo discovered that magnetorotational instability leads to turbulence. Hawley is a professor at the University of Virginia while Balbus is a University of Oxford professor. The Shaw ...

13 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is looking for a known suspect, after a Salina man is attacked at a race track. Deputies interviewed 21-year-old Adam Rumsey, at Salina Regional Health Center early Saturday morning after a friend took him to the ER. Rumsey told officers he was at the Salina Speedway on Friday with some friends, when ...

13 years ago
Salina Police are investigating 2 business burglaries. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, someone broke the glass on a door to gain entry into a auto repair garage at 1021 W. Elm, sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Once inside burglars removed 2 Subaru radiators, 2 Subaru keyless remotes, plus four automotive batteries. Total loss and damage is ...

13 years ago
The free summer lunch program in Salina begins this week. The free lunches are for all children ages one through eighteen. Adults are welcome to eat for $3.50. Breakfast price for adults is $1.75. There is no fee or registration required to receive meals. This program is an equal opportunity provider. This year's program runs now through ...

13 years ago
Some states are pushing back against uniform benchmarks for reading, writing and math that have been fully adopted in most states and are being widely put in place this school year. The new Common Core standards replace a hodgepodge of educational goals that had varied from state to state. The federal government was not involved in ...

13 years ago
A 14-year-old boy from the Haysville area is believed to have drowned in Wellington Lake. A search for the boy is scheduled to resume Tuesday morning. Wellington Police Chief Tracy Heath says the teen was with friends at the lake Monday afternoon when he went under the water and did not come back up. Winds that were gusting ...

13 years ago
Cowley College in Winfield will continue banning concealed weapons inside its buildings and residence halls as officials study how to implement a new Kansas law. The law taking effect July 1 prohibits most public entities from banning concealed firearms in their buildings unless the buildings have adequate security. But it also lets public universities and junior ...

13 years ago
An active week of severe weather in Kansas is expected this week. To start the week, tornadoes touched down in parts of the state on Monday. Late in the afternoon a large wedge tornado touched down over open country near Smith Center. Late in the evening a tornado touched down in the Marysville area, damaging a couple of ...