7 years ago
Sears is going to close over two-dozen more K Mart stores, including one in Kansas, as its earnings and sales continue to fall. The company announced Thursday that it is closing 28 K Mart stores across the country. Among the K Marts being closed is a location in Topeka, on Wanamaker Road. The store in Salina ...

7 years ago
Saline County Commissioners approved the renewal of an agreement between Saline County Emergency Management and Kansas Wesleyan University at their meeting this week. According to KWU, the agreement will help to enhance both entities’ commitment to mitigation, effective response and recovery from disasters. It will encourage and advance scholarship and research in the field of emergency ...

7 years ago
As students return to school, Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland is inviting all K-12 girls to sign up for Girl Scouts and lead the way like a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader) in their community and the world. Girl Scout troops are forming across the state and preparing for an exciting year of girl-led adventures that ...

7 years ago
Salina Arts & Humanities, in collaboration with downtown stakeholders, announces the next Friday Night Live concert event on August 25th. Friday Night Live is a series of arts and entertainment programming for Salina residents and visitors designed to increase attendance and participation in arts-related events and to strengthen partnerships with local business owners in the ...

7 years ago
A special exhibit created for the Symphony in the Flint Hills Gallery is currently at the Eisenhower Presidential Library. "The Chisholm Trail: Driving the American West" is now on display in the Library building gallery. The exhibit will be open during regular operating hours from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. daily through mid-October, including Labor ...

7 years ago
Though the grand prize was not won in Kansas, don't throw away your Powerball tickets just yet. The jackpot-winning ticket in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing was sold in Massachusetts, giving the winner a choice of a $758.7 million annuity, or $480.5 million in cash. This is the largest jackpot won by a single ticket of ...

7 years ago
Powerball Product Group Chair Charlie McIntyre says the $758.7 million jackpot claimed by a ticket sold in Massachusetts is the largest grand prize won by a single lottery ticket in U.S. history. In a statement early Thursday, McIntyre also says six other tickets won $2 million apiece, and 34 more are worth $1 million. The lucky numbers for ...

7 years ago
A judge has ruled that a man accused of raping and trying to kill a 7-year-old Wichita girl will go on trial. Corbin Breitenbach is charged with attempted capital murder, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated burglary. Prosecutors allege he broke into a woman's condo in June and attacked the girl before putting her back into a ...

7 years ago
The grandmother of a woman suing over her 2013 firing from the Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office has testified the woman's failure to go to church was a factor in her dismissal. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Margie Canfield also told jurors Tuesday in Topeka, Kansas, that Kobach's chief deputy, Eric Rucker, asked her to ...

7 years ago
Six "extreme sports" athletes are ready to push their performance to the edge as the Real Encounter event barrels into the Tony's Pizza Event Center Wednesday night. Former motorcross pro Brad Bennett joined in on the KSAL Morning News and said his crew always had a nose for adventure. "All of us when we were kids, we ...

7 years ago
A home intruder is in custody after he met the owner of the home he was trying to break in to the hard way in the early hours this morning. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 51-year-old, Mark Kind awoke to his dog barking in his home at 60 West Prairie Ridge Rd. at 4:16 ...