6 years ago
Bethany College Criminal Justice students recently completed a travel course to study with the police departments of Phoenix, AZ and Las Vegas, NV. During the course, Bethany students arrived in Phoenix to learn about the Maricopa County jail facilities and the Phoenix Police Department’s air support unit. After several days in Phoenix the class went to Las ...

6 years ago
Cadet Christopher “Harper” Martin Jr. speaks with calm conviction when asked about life after graduation from St. John’s Military School. “St. John’s has created a future for me. I know what I’m doing now. Before St. John’s I wasn’t doing well academically, and I wasn’t on the right track for college. The discipline and the structure ...

6 years ago
A heart warming rescue took place in the cold at the Herington City Lake on Tuesday. According to the Herington Fire Department, first responders saved a deer who became stranded and disabled on the frozen water. The visibly exhausted deer collapsed on the ice after giving up on trying to make it back to the land. The ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Commission is pondering what to do about a jail that it seems has been outgrown. Commissioners Tuesday heard a 70 minute presentation from Jim Robertson, owner of Voorhis/Robertson Justice Services, LLC. A few years ago, the county spent $58,000 to hire his firm and this is now phase 3/4 of the initial agreement. Robertson ...

6 years ago
After interviewing four candidates last week the Salina USD 305 Board of Education has decided not to hire any of them to be the new superintendent. According to the district, at a special school board meeting Tuesday evening board members unanimously selected Linn Exline, executive director of school improvement to serve as interim superintendent beginning July ...

6 years ago
A Hays woman traveling on Interstate 70 was killed on Tuesday afternoon due to the slick road. The Kansas Highway Patrol tells KSAL News 19-year-old Ashlen Leigh Lemon was traveling westbound on I-70 just two miles west of Junction City when her 2005 Chevy Malibu lost control due to icy road conditions, entered the median and ...

6 years ago
A woman returns to her driveway to find the car she was warming up - gone. Salina Police report that Jennifer Weis left her 2003 Ford Focus warming up and unattended last Friday afternoon. She told officers she walked back in her house for a quick minute and came back to discover the car was stolen. Police say ...

6 years ago
A Salina man was arrested after a little boy told authorities that his stepfather hurt him. Police took 36-year-old Joseph Cubillas, II into custody after agents with the Department of Children and Families interviewed the 6-year old boy. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that last Friday, Cubbillas, II allegedly grabbed the boy by the throat ...

6 years ago
An illegal park job leads to the arrest of a car thief from Burlington, Kansas. According to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester, an officer on patrol Monday afternoon pulled over to ask a female about why she was parked so far from the curb in the 1000 block of Osborn. While he chatted with the female driver, ...

6 years ago
A property owner finds a bullet hole in the door of his rental property. Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were sent to the 600 block of Montrose Sunday night around 11pm after several gunshots were heard. Investigators found no damage to neighborhood houses or shell casings in the area and left the ...

6 years ago
A Herington man was taken into custody after allegedly sending explicit photos of himself to a 13-year-old Salina girl. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 23-year-old Tanner J. Becker was arrested Monday after the victim told a friend about the images and text messages he sent her in late December. The investigation was initiated after ...