Saline County News

If combines could only float, a good harvest would be nearly had. Milo, soybeans and other fall crops, bulging with bounty and ripe for picking, are mired in mud and standing water.

Two complete firearms and parts of a third were retrieved from the lake during a search that concluded Monday involving deputies from the Saline County Mounted Patrol and Rescue Squad and Salina police officers, Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield said today.

The survey results by a group of researchers from Kansas Wesleyan University were presented at Tuesdaya s Saline County Commission meeting.

According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, a 72-year-old man from northeast Kansas and a 53-year-old woman from the Wichita area are the latest two victims.

Last week at a similar clinic, about 750 children were vaccinated, including about 350 mist and 400 injection vaccinations.

The formal meeting is 11 a.m. in Room 107 of the City-County Building. Commissioners also meet informally from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m., or until business of the day has concluded, in Room 209 of the City-County Building.

Brandon S. Letourneau, 1113 N. Fourth, was found to be in possession of about a third of an ounce of suspected marijuana and drug paraphernalia at the school at 1135 Lakewood Circle, said Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield.

In September, Saline County commissioners, led by John Reynolds and Jerry Fowler, who voted in favor of the project, set conditions that Concordia-based Alsop Sand Co.

Anthony Bosco, 65, owner of Salina Electric, fell about 20 feet when the utility pole he was working on snapped shortly after 10 a.m., according to the Saline County Sheriffa s Office.

A Salina man who was convicted for raiding a church collection plate in 2008 has been arrested for stealing a credit card from another local church.

The countya s Geographic Information Systems department created the map, which was inspired by a mural in the Saline County Sheriffa s Office painted by a former jail inmate.

Juliette Jean Cox, 32, 1661 W. Republic, Lot 73, was booked into the Saline County Jail on Friday night and was released on bond Saturday afternoon, jail records show.

One, a 6-year-old child, was in critical condition Monday afternoon. The driver of one of the vehicles, Starla Harrell, 35, 1966 N. Hedville, was cited for reckless driving, driving too fast, failure to use child restraints and not wearing a seatbelt.

The $15,000 contract with John Paul Wright, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati, is being funded out of reimbursement fees paid by offenders being supervised by Community Corrections, director Annie Grevas said.

On Monday evening, Salina police arrested Thomas Eugene Jenkins, 29, at his north Salina home on charges of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated burglary, first-degree murder during the commission of a felony, solicitation to commit first-degree murder and theft from a building.

Police in Salina have arrested a man suspected in a homicide back in June. 29-year-old Thomas Eugene Jenkins was arrested Monday evening and booked on several charges, including First Degree Murder.

Salina Police Chief James Hill and Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski held a press conference Friday morning to give additional information on the shooting Thursday that left two people dead and one in critical condition.

Kelly Goth isn't surprised by common petty crimes. "We've had bikes stolen out of the yard," she said.

A New Mexico excursion to explore a niche market convinced Salina cattleman Jack Cossette that the Japanese Wagyu breed was worth a try to increase profits.

The first batches of swine flu vaccine have begun arriving in Kansas. Health departments in Saline and Franklin counties reported Thursday that they had received their first allocations of the vaccine.