Salina News

After several years of slight population growth, projections from the U.S. Census Bureau call for Saline County to begin a slow slide as soon as next year.

The leading edge of the storms move north of Salina Friday night. photo by Todd Pittenger Mother Nature supplied some fireworks of her own Friday night in the Salina area, in the form of intense lightning and a brief tornado.

Soldiers and families of the Kansas National Guarda s 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery will be honored with a steak feed cookout on Friday, July 3, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The cookout is being sponsored by the All American Beef Battalion and will be held at the Salina Armory, 2910 Arnold Ave, Salina.

Jonathan T. Dong, 36, 329 W. Republic, was arrested on charges of robbery and domestic battery.

What do Abraham Lincoln and Luke Skywalker have in common? Theme music, as it turns out.

Teresa Grover, 710 Garden, reported to Salina police that her black and white rat terrier was killed sometime between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Police say a Salina man driving what was believed to be a stolen service van damaged eight vehicles early Wednesday that were parked in a three-block area of West Iron Avenue.

The Saline County Sheriffa s Office is investigating 3 business burglaries where business account checks had been stolen.

The manager of the convenience store at 1339 N. Ninth, Morgan, 29, solved the gas caper by taking quick action and giving chase, albeit ill-advised. One of Morgana s regular customers reported a car had sped away, leaving the gas pump nozzle on the concrete at 2:30 p.m. The customer entered the store and a oerattled offa the cara s license tag ...

Trooper Craig Davis pulled into the field shortly after 9 p.m. at Old Highway 40 and Gypsum Valley Road and left his vehicle to see if he could assist the driver of the combine that apparently started the blaze, said Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski.

According to the National Weather Service in Wichita, a slow-moving isolated storm system moving from the northeast through central Kansas reached Saline County about 7 p.m. Thursday.

Who gets DUIs in Salina? Does where you live in Salina matter when it comes to the probability of you getting cited for driving under the influence? It does.

After meeting with Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn, Clay Center Police Chief Bill Robinson and Clay County Attorney Rick James, the KBI investigator ruled that the shooting of Clay Center resident Ronald Hughes was justified under the circumstances and the officers involved acted professionally.

According to Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield, police were called to 106 E. Minneapolis about 4 a.m. Once there, they were told Janet Levine, 45, had been arguing with her son, Matthew Levine, 19, about a fight he had been in, and damage to a window.

Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski said Shirley, 39, was a passenger on the 2007 Harley Davidson, which was driven by Cody Tenpenny, 29, 241 S. Ninth.

Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield said police were called to a disturbance in the parking lot at Salina Regional Health Center at 6:26 a.m. When police arrived, they found a man, possibly in his 20s, who had been shot.

SALINA, Kan. - Everything that could go wrong will go wrong at Crisis City. A domestic terrorist sets off an explosion on a railroad line, causing a derailment.

A 24-year-old Salina man gunned down in his apartment early Saturday told police he was concerned about his safety because he planned to testify against two men accused of shooting at him previously.

Nominations are being accepted for the 2009 Leadership Salina program, sponsored by the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce and Greater Salina Community Foundation.

The skies over the Salina area will be a bit noisier than usual in the upcoming weeks as Canada's Air Force 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron out of Bagotville, Quebec, trains over the Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range.