13 years ago
Officials in Dodge City will soon begin looking for a new police chief. City officials said Wednesday that Chief Craig Mellecker has announced he'll retire in March 2014 after 30 years with the police department. Mellecker was appointed chief in 2011. City manager Ken Strobel says officials knew at the time that Mellecker would be retiring within ...

13 years ago
The chairman of the Kansas House committee on taxation says it's "misleading" for Democrats to describe newly approved tax legislation as a tax increase. Republican Richard Carlson said Wednesday that the plan approved over the weekend is part of a larger tax reform effort that began last year. This year's bill cancels most of a sales tax ...

13 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a hit and run driver who was caught on video. Police say that on Saturday of this week a white male wearing a light colored ball cap left the Salina Walmart parking lot. The driver was in a maroon colored GM truck. The suspect wrecked into another vehicle in the parking ...

13 years ago
The commission that is planning a memorial to honor President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington plans to unveil a series of quotations that may be inscribed in the monument. The Eisenhower Memorial Commission is hosting a public forum Wednesday evening in Washington. A committee of scholars and Eisenhower experts will discuss their recommendations for which of ...

13 years ago
The Kansas Department of Corrections says the convicted killer of an abortion provider violated prison rules by trying to intimidate the woman who reopened the doctor's abortion clinic in Wichita. DOC spokesman Jeremy Barclay said Wednesday that Scott Roeder will be punished with 45 days in disciplinary segregation with no outside communication. That would be followed ...

13 years ago
A motorcycle and more is stolen from the bed of a truck. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, sometime between Monday night at 11pm and Tuesday afternoon at 5:20pm, someone removed a 2003 Suzuki, 125 cc motorcycle from the bed of a pickup that was parked in the 500 block of Bishop. The owner told police that a ...

13 years ago
Tomorrow night the River Festival kicks off with the Festival Jam at 6 p.m., but until then city workers flock to Oakdale Park to help set up for this weekend's events. The big white tents flapped in the wind as workers finished their construction; a group of women worked to spread mulch at the base of ...

13 years ago
An early morning car fire is under investigation. Police report that a neighbor awakened 30-year-old Nathan Maddox, around 1:15am Wednesday, to tell him that a car parked in back of his property was on fire. Fire crews responded to the 100 block of E. Beloit and found Maddox spraying his 1989 Chevy Celebrity with a hose. Police say ...

13 years ago
Salina residents are accustomed to the sight and sounds of Canadian F-18 Hornets training in the area, but this June they may notice a more familiar flag as the U.S. military takes advantage of Salina's location to train members of our own armed forces. The deployment will include close air support training, live fire events, aircraft ...

13 years ago
The Army's 1st Infantry Division celebrates its 96th birthday next week with a series of events at Fort Riley. The annual Victory Week activities begin Monday with a 4-mile run around Custer Hill. Nearly 13,000 of the 18,000 soldiers assigned to the division are expected to take part. Officials will cut a cake the following day at ...

13 years ago
Crews in southwest Kansas are trying to salvage at least some hay from a fire that has burned thousands of bales so far. About 51,000 bales owned by Abengoa Bioenergy and Cattle Empire have been burning since May 28 near Moscow in Stevens County. Fire Chief Darroll Munson told the Garden City Telegram that nearly 18,000 additional ...