7 years ago
Kroger has completed the sale of its convenience stores for $2.15 billion. The company announced Friday that the sale of the convenience stores to EG Group is complete. Included in the sale are 762 convenience stores, including 66 franchise operations, operating in 18 states and employing 11,000 associates under the following banner names: Turkey Hill, Loaf ...

7 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobach is promising an appeal. Kobach said he will fight a federal judge's ruling that he crossed the line by refusing to cooperate with the ACLU, which had sued over Kansas voter ID law. A federal judge earlier this week declared Kobach to be in contempt of court and ordered him ...

7 years ago
A large gathering of women took over the Central Mall in Salina Thursday night. Rocking M Media's For Women Only event drew a large crowd, and provided a full night of entertainment, prizes, food, drink, fun, and fellowship. Multiple vendors displayed items and services with the ladies in mind, and provided prizes. This year's event brought back the ...

7 years ago
Police are investigating the theft of an assault style rifle from a Salina gun store in broad daylight. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that on Tuesday afternoon around 1pm a white male suspect entered Cleve's Marine and Sporting Goods located at 136 S. Broadway and began a conversation with the clerk. Police say when the employee ...

7 years ago
A pasture full of neglected cattle and horses leads to the arrest of a Salina man and his mother. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that authorities executed search warrants for a pasture located southeast of Salina at Lapsley Road and Woodward Road plus a residence in the 5000 block of Country Club Road on Wednesday ...

7 years ago
For the second consecutive year, Salina Area Technical College has been named one of the 10 best small community colleges in the country by Victory Media, publisher of G.I. Jobs, STEM Jobs and Military Spouse. Victory Media ranked Salina seventh in the nation among small community colleges for its services to veterans. “Salina Area Technical College has ...

7 years ago
A federal judge is declaring Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to be in contempt of court and ordering him to pay court costs. Wednesday's ruling from U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson stems from a legal challenge to Kansas' proof-of-citizenship voter law, which requires people to show ID including a birth certificate or passport when they ...

7 years ago
Manhattan firefighters rescued two dogs from an apartment fire on Wednesday. While responding to a fire on Garden Way first responders pulled two dogs from the fire. Using special equipment, they were able to save both dogs. The agency thanked animal control and the Kansas Stat University Veterinary Health Center for assisting. The dogs, named Ducky and Lila, ...

7 years ago
While the biggest tax deadline of the year was earlier this week, another local tax deadline is still looming. According Saline County Treasurer Jim DuBois, the 2017 second half tax payments are due May 10th.  The 2017 tax statements were mailed in November 2017.  First half tax was due December 20, 2017 and second half tax ...

7 years ago
A long-time Salina auto dealership has earned a couple of prestigious industry awards. On Wednesday Long McArthur Ford in Salina received a VIP visit from Dearborn, Michigan. Ford Motor Company presented them with the President's Award for 2017. Not only did Long McArthur receive the award for 2017, they were also winners in 2015 and 2016 ...

7 years ago
Three men from the southwest Kansas area were convicted Wednesday on charges of conspiring to detonate a bomb at an apartment complex in Garden City where Muslim immigrants lived. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, after a four-week trial a federal jury convicted 49-year-old Patrick Eugene Stein of Wright, Kansas, 50-year-old Curtis Allen of Liberal, Kansas, ...