5 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a thirty-something white female who spent Tuesday using phony money to make purchases and walk away with money from the cash register. According to Captain Paul Forrester, a dark haired woman in a white top, red checked skirt and long black socks used a counterfeit $100 bill to buy some gummy ...

5 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a storage shed burglary at a rural property east of Smolan. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that deputies were sent to the 3000 block of W Smolan Road on Wednesday evening around 6:45pm after a former renter came back to clean out a few belongings and discovered they ...

5 years ago
A Salina woman who was sought by authorities for stealing a couple of vehicles is in jail after punching the owner of a third truck she allegedly stole. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were sent to the 300 block of N. Phillips on Wednesday evening around 8:20pm after neighbors heard a disturbance ...

5 years ago
Sometimes the words and actions of a small group of people is all it takes to start a movement. Kansas Wesleyan University will celebrate such an occasion with a special event, a dinner kicking off a year-long celebration of 50 years of women's athletics at the school, which is set for Oct. 12 at 7 ...

5 years ago
A new class of four will be inducted into the Salina Business Hall of Fame. According to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, the 2019 inductees include: Earl Bane, former store owner and territory manager for Dairy Queen (Historic Category, 1926-1975) Marshall Stanton, former Kansas Wesleyan University President, and Eugene and Margaret Logan, co-founders of REMA ...

5 years ago
The spirit of Vincent Van Gogh is taking over the Salina Art Center. The organization is welcoming  Dena Peterson to Salina September 29 - October 6. Peterson will be living and working in the Art Center Warehouse, visiting local high schools through Arts Infusion, teaching workshops, leading gallery and cinema discussions and much more. Peterson worked ...

5 years ago
A program and a goal of increasing the number of advanced nursing practitioners in rural Kansas communities have helped the Department of Nursing at Fort Hays State University win the largest individual grant ever at Fort Hays State University. The program is called the BSN to DNP track. It is a pathway for nurses who have ...

5 years ago
The number of suicides among children in Kansas is rising at an alarming rate. According to the Kansas Attorney General's Office, child suicide rose by 50 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to a report released Wednesday by the Kansas State Child Death Review Board. The 32 Kansas youth who died by suicide in 2017 was up ...

5 years ago
The death of a Kansas prison inmate has been determined to be of natural causes. According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, preliminary autopsy results indicate Norton Correctional Facility Central Unit offender Jeremy J. Palmer, died as a result of a cardiac event earlier this month. Palmer fell ill while working at a private industry worksite last ...

5 years ago
Reno County will soon have a new sheriff. Randy Henderson announced this week that he will retire as Reno County sheriff on December 27th. Henderson, who spent more than four decades in law enforcement, says plans to spend more time with his 98-year-old mother and attend more of his grandchildren's games and school-related events. The Reno County Republican ...

5 years ago
An investigation by the Salina Police Department leads to the arrest of a Salina man for possible sexual abuse of children. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the case began back on Aug. 12, 2019 and involves one three-year-old female and one four-year-old female. Forrester says that the mother of the two victims ...