7 years ago
Retail experts are predicting an unusual holiday shopping trend for this year. Shelley Bransten with Salesforce predicts that Black Friday will be the busiest digital shopping day in U.S. history, bigger than Cyber Monday. She says this prediction is based on insights from 500 million global shoppers across 53 countries. Traditionally Black Friday has been the big ...

7 years ago
A Kansas teen was killed in a Thanksgiving evening crash involving a deer. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 64-year-old Calvin Boyd of Medicine Lodge was driving a 2013 Ford Explorer headed south on U.S. 281 Highway. He struck a deer that entered his path from the west ditch, causing it to go airborne. At the same ...

7 years ago
The smells of Thanksgiving food, and the sounds of fellowship and fun were in the air Thursday at Applebee's in Salina. The only thing on the menu was turkey, and all the trimmings. For over two decades the Salina Salvation Army has served a free community-wide Thanksgiving meal at the South Salina restaurant. People begin lining up ...

7 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo is mourning the loss of one of the members of their animal family. Earlier this week the zoo's female cougar passed away. According to the zoo, Sadie, the zoo’s female cougar, was euthanized on Tuesday due to health issues impacting her quality of life. At 18 years of age, Sadie had outlived a ...

7 years ago
Governor Sam Brownback received a special holiday delivery this week from Salina. The governor’s Christmas tree arrived at his Cedar Crest mansion on a horse-drawn coach Tuesday morning. This year’s 9 foot Scotch Pine was grown and donated by Michelle Peck of Bel Tree Farm in east Salina. Bel Tree Farm is also donating a 24 ...

7 years ago
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan is reminding Thanksgiving holiday drivers to be watchful of deer after three more accidents over the past 24 hours involving deer strikes. Sheriff Soldan reports that a deer strike caused heavy damage to a Ford Explorer on Tuesday evening around 6pm after a collision on K-140 near Powers Road. At 7:13pm Tuesday, ...

7 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the use of a counterfeit $10 bill that was discovered in a deposit this week from The City Teen Center, 129 N. 7th. Staff at Bennington State Bank on South 9th discovered the phony bill and contacted police.   Police are investigating a work-site burglary at the Fairfield Inn at 2455 Virginia Ct, ...

7 years ago
Redshirt freshman quarterback Skylar Thompson connected with junior wide receiver Byron Pringle on three passing touchdowns, and Pringle added an 89-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to help Kansas State shock 13th-ranked Oklahoma State, 45-40. Pringle became the first player in Big 12 history with three touchdown catches and a kickoff return touchdown in the same ...

7 years ago
A Salina man was taken into custody after jumping out of a stolen SUV and running into the woods. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 22-year-old Malachi Lageman was arrested on Monday in connection to a string of vehicle burglaries. Police say between October 21 and November 20 Lageman allegedly broke into three vehicles on Clark ...

7 years ago
Two of the region's largest utilities are one step closer to combining forces. Shareholders of Kansas City-based Great Plains Energy and Topeka-based Westar Energy have voted in favor of merging the two companies under a new corporation called Monarch Energy Holding. Officials announced yesterday shareholders for each company voted more than 90-percent in favor of the ...

7 years ago
The cost of this year's Thanksgiving dinner is the lowest since 2013 and second-lowest since 2011. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual price survey of classic items found on the Thanksgiving Day table, the average cost for this year's dinner for 10 is $49.12 - 75-cents less than last year's feast. Director of market ...