8 years ago
A crash on Interstate 70 east of Salina on Tuesday morning involving a military convoy vehicle and a small civilian SUV sent three people to the hospital. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol,  a 2011  Chevrolet Equinox was following a military vehicle. The driver of the SUV, 29-year-old Monica Westendorf of Abilene,  was distracted by her ...

8 years ago
An isolated storm that quickly developed, and quickly intensified, caused some damage in a portion of east Salina early Monday evening. The storm generated a tornado warning for eastern Saline County for a brief period of time. The warning was generated by a public report of a tornado in the area of County Club and Simpson ...

8 years ago
One of Salina's largest employers is looking to increase its work force, and is going to give them all a wage increase. Schwan’s Company, which owns and operates the Tony’s pizza manufacturing facility in Salina, announced a $2-an-hour wage increase, an investment of about $5 million annually. The announcement was made as the plant and warehouse ...

8 years ago
Kansas legislators have adjourned their annual session and are waiting for a state Supreme Court ruling on education funding later this summer. The House and Senate met briefly Monday to formally end the session weeks after passing an income tax increase and a plan to boost spending on public schools. The Supreme Court plans to hear arguments ...

8 years ago
An arson investigation is underway after a man awakened to find his front porch on fire Sunday in west Salina. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 25-year-old Malcolm Norris heard his home smoke alarm sound at 5:15am Sunday morning and ran downstairs to discover a fire just outside his front door. Police say the suspicious ...

8 years ago
Fireworks will go on sale Tuesday. A lot of information will continue to be distributed to educate citizens on the rules, so it's only appropriate to share the information so that we can answer questions of citizens if need be. Please feel free to distribute as needed. Saline County (Assaria & New Cambria follows the County ...

8 years ago
Authorities in east-central Kansas' Lyon County are investigating a small bomb they say was found in a field. The Lyon County Sheriff's Department says that the improvised explosive device was found shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday near Allen by a person who was renting the field. Sheriff's officials contacted a Fort Riley bomb squad, which responded to ...

8 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a state budget for the next two years that will use a $1.2 billion income tax increase to fund government and schools, but he complained about "excessive spending." Brownback signed the $15.6 billion budget bill on Sunday. It will provide raises of up to 5 percent to state workers who ...

8 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed into law a measure that creates an independent task force to review the state's child welfare system. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the measure was in response to the deaths of a number of children who had been in state custody. It also followed a series of audit reports that were ...

8 years ago
A judge has fined Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach $1,000 for misleading the court about the contents of materials he was photographed taking into a November meeting with then President-elect Donald Trump. The ruling Friday by U.S. Magistrate Judge James O'Hara also requires Kobach to submit to a deposition by the American Civil Liberties Union ...

8 years ago
A southern Kansas man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually attacked a mother of four before fatally setting her on fire. KWCH-TV reports that an attorney for 28-year-old Cornell McNeal of Wichita entered the pleas Friday on McNeal's behalf during a Sedgwick County arraignment. He's charged with capital murder in the November 2014 death ...