8 years ago
Salina Police are working with investigators in Wichita on a case of stolen identity after a person claiming to be that man from Wichita walked out of NexTech Wireless Central Mall location with 5 Apple iPhones worth $4,200. Police say the suspect convinced a staff member he was starting up a business and opened an ...

8 years ago
Police are looking for a 17-year-old male - after his father allegedly assaulted a police officer to free him. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that two officers were serving a warrant for the teen at a trailer park in the 900 block of N. 13th around 8:45pm Saturday night. Forrester says officers knocked on the front ...

8 years ago
A Saturday morning fire destroys a Ford tractor. Crews from Rural Fire Department #3 were called to an active fire inside a metal shed in the 8400 block of W. Stimmel Road Saturday morning just after 8am. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that owner Joe Armstrong discovered the bidirectional tractor was on fire inside ...

8 years ago
Some parents of Shawnee Mission School District students in eastern Kansas aren't happy to learn the public school district has bought eight semi-automatic rifles for its school resource officers. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/2sRjtXo) the rifles were bought in 2015, but that parents only recently learned of them. Some parents, like Lisa Veglahn, were unnerved by ...

8 years ago
Rescue teams have found the body of a 17-year-old boy who drowned in a small eastern Kansas lake. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/2shZrbo) that the teen was swimming in the Pierson Park lake early Sunday with friends when he disappeared beneath the water. The other three teens called authorities around 2 a.m. Sunday to report the ...

8 years ago
Amtrak and BNSF Railway officials are gauging interest in passenger train service between Texas and Kansas. Joe McHugh, an Amtrak vice president, tells the Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2sR0D2p) that there are many steps needed to establish passenger train service between the states. But he says there has been tremendous interest from people in southern and eastern Kansas ...

8 years ago
The 41st edition of the Smoky Hill River Festival wrapped up Sunday evening in Oakdale Park. It was another successful weekend for everyone involved. Over 100 performers and 130 artists made their way to Salina and brought lots of entertainment to festival goers. Weather conditions stayed dry all weekend, however, festival goers had to battle windy and hot ...

8 years ago
A former Olathe Northwest High School student who had active tuberculosis says he wants to raise awareness about the potentially fatal disease that is still relatively rare in the state. Tests discovered that Zee Pinkerton had the disease two years ago when he was a senior. Students and staff at the school were tested. Those who tested ...

8 years ago
Many Kansas legislators see their work toward complying with a state Supreme Court mandate on public school funding as unfinished. They take that view even though lawmakers passed a bill last week that phases in a $293 million increase in spending over two years. Some expect to be forced to return to the Statehouse this summer. Republican Gov. ...

8 years ago
Kansas legislators have approved a bill that would set up a task force to provide greater oversight for the state's foster care system and recommend changes. The votes Friday were 105-10 in the House and 33-6 in the Senate. The bill goes next to Gov. Sam Brownback. A three-part state audit found that the Department for Children ...

8 years ago
A Kansas man charged with fatally shooting an Indian national at a suburban Kansas City bar has been indicted on federal hate crime and firearms charges. The Justice Department announced Friday that Adam Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas, was indicted by a federal grand jury. The man allegedly killed and another wounded by Purinton on Feb. 22 at ...