Saline County News

Korrey R. Rinke, 1015 Scott, was arrested on charges of carrying a concealed weapon onto school property and possession of a firearm by a juvenile, said Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield.

Public meetings are to be arranged in New Cambria, Gypsum, Assaria, Brookville, Smolan and Salina.

A federal grand jury in Topeka returned an indictment Wednesday charging Jason E. Frazier with kidnapping and other counts stemming from an Oct.

The Canadian Army and Air Force soldiers are in Salina, training at the nearby Smoky Hill Weapons Range.

Commissioners will meet informally from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 209 of the City-County Building.

Tim Rogers, executive director of the Salina Airport Authority, will address the media on behalf of the city of Salina, Saline County, Salina Area Chamber of Commerce and the Salina Airport Authority, according to a news release issued Monday morning from the airport authority.

Saline County commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved an agreement with Honeywell for an energy-saving audit of county government buildings.

Firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to a neighboring mobile home.

Salina firefighters Monday afternoon rescued a dog and a cat from a mobile home that burned, but the home itself was destroyed.

A roll over crash on Watkins Road injures a rural Brookville woman. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, Christina Lecklider, 28 of 10798 W. Watkins Road, was traveling eastbound on Watkins Road early Sunday evening around 5:15pm. For an unknown reason Lecklider lost control of her 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix and entered a ditch near Reese ...

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.