Did you feel it? Another earthquake shook Central Kansas early Wednesday. The U.S. Geological Survey says a small earthquake was centered in Southern Saline County. According to the agency a magnitude 4.0 earthquake was centered about 2.5 miles south /southwest of Gypsum. The earthquake happened Wednesday morning at 3:58. There were no immediate reports of damage. Earthquakes of this magnitude, ra...
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind watch starting Wednesday morning for most of Kansas and Nebraska and the northwest corner of Missouri. Most of central Iowa is under the same watch starting Wednesday afternoon into the night. The system’s swath starts in New Mexico and cuts across southeastern Colorado, the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and ends in southeast corner of Minnes...
After a suspicious thread on the app Discord was found, the Riley County Police Department has opened an investigation into the threat of a possible shooting at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School. In an email sent to families of students at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School in Manhattan, Principal Tracy Newell said it has been brought to the attention of school administration that on Thursday mor...
An Abilene man has been arrested in connection to multiple fraudulent checks passed in the city. The Abilene Police Department on Dec. 1 began investigating a number of fraudulent checks that were passed at several locations in Abilene. The total amount of loss was believed to be in excess of $30,000, according to a news release from the Abilene Police Department this morning. On Monday, office...
An Earthquake shook central Kansas Wednesday morning. The quake, which struck at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, measured a magnitude 4.3, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was centered approximately 3 miles south-southwest of Gypsum and was felt across a wide area, including in Salina. There are no reports of damage or injury. Wednesday's quake follows a series of quakes in Saline County over t...
The executive director at the Dickinson County Economic Development Corporation has been selected as the next president of the Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas, the board of directors announced Thursday. Chuck Scott will replace Kent Heermann, who has served as president of the RDA since 1994. The transition will occur in the first quarter of 2022. Scott began his position w...
A Solomon man is facing an aggravated battery charge after an altercation with another man early Wednesday morning. 18 year old Simon Smith allegedly hit 21-year-old Jordan Moffett with his 2015 Toyota Camry in the 500 block of State Street around 1:10 a.m. The situation started after Moffett was given a ride home from work from a co-worker, who was also Smith’s girlfriend.Accor4ding to the au...
Livingston sworn in as county clerk Eighth Judicial District Chief Judge Benjamin Sexton, left, conducted the swearing in ceremony for new Dickinson County Clerk Jeanne Livingston at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, Dec. 1 in Sterl Hall, the temporary location of Dickinson County District Court. Livingston’s first day as county clerk was Wednesday, following the retirement Tuesday of long-time cl...
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Pictured is Abilene Junior, Heath Hoekman. It is a file photo from Monday's Jamboree. Image courte...
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