Salina News

18 at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church, 215 S. Chicago. * MOUNDRIDGE -- Curt Goering, senior deputy executive director for Amnesty International USA, will speak at 9:30 a.m. Feb.

A Great Bend man who was being arrested for allegedly driving under the influence early Friday had an amusing comeback when Salina police told him the vehicle he was driving had been reported stolen.

The Saline County Sheriff's Office is seeking information about how a German shepherd dog was shot in the leg.

At one time, Hawker Beechcraft employed more than 800 workers in Salina, but on Feb.

The band, which originated in Salina, is taking its "musical puddlejumper" sound of pop, funk, classic rock, Motown and rockabilly and toning it down for an "Almost Acoustic" concert at a Salina bookstore and coffee house.

A man who once passed himself off as a pilot, an attorney, and a pediatrician played the role of speaker in Salina on Thursday.

A Salina woman was injured about 9:20 p.m. Tuesday when she lost control of her sport utility vehicle on ice and collided with an oncoming pickup truck.

Two boys were arrested Wednesday in connection with 12 cases of vandalism, including damage done to churches, an elementary school and several homes.

One of Father Galen Long's passions, both as a lay teacher and later as a Catholic priest, was spending time with youth.

A 27-year-old Salina man arrested Tuesday is accused of three vehicle burglaries.

Police sent to a Salina home Monday to check on the welfare of a man found that his nose was still bleeding about 12 hours after someone allegedly struck him in the face with a hammer.

Bayard's Cafe, known for its all-day breakfast menu and homemade pies and breads, is expanding to a second location on Broadway Boulevard.

Gerald D. "Jerry" Copenhaver, 61, passed away Sunday, February 5th, 2012, at the Abilene Memorial Hospital.

Most of the charges against the co-owner of a Salina business where herbal potpourri used to be sold were dropped Monday, and Brian J. Schultz instead pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Salina city commissioners voted unanimously Monday to spend up to $444,943.13 to do work on the intersection of Crawford and Ohio streets.

For Monsignor Edward J. Weisenburger, being named the new bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salina is a "new and surprising turn in my life," but also a homecoming.

The city of Salina will have a public meeting from 4:30 to 6:30 today at Emmanuel Christian Center, 1325 E. Cloud, concerning improvements to Cloud Street from Ohio to the flood control levee.

A proposal to add sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes under the city's equal opportunity and affirmative action ordinance could come before the Salina City Commission as soon as 90 days.

Three children and five dogs were removed from a Salina home, and a 22-year-old woman was arrested Sunday on charges of animal cruelty and child endangerment.

A Kansas City, Kan., man who abandoned his disabled car along Interstate Highway 70 allegedly stole two pickup trucks Saturday, one from the garage of a Saline County sheriff's deputy, before he was arrested in Osborne.