8 years ago
A couple of Salina area high school graduating senior basketball players will get the opportunity to compete a final time on the hardwood, against some of the best graduating college talent in the country. The KU Barnstorming Tour is out on the road right now, and when it makes  a stop in Wichita on Friday ...

8 years ago
Local lore points to the hill northwest of Lindsborg - as the landmark where Spanish explorer Coronado made a U-turn back to Mexico. Coming up Thursday evening at the Smoky Hill Museum in Salina, archaeologist Tim Weston will be exploring the myths, history and connection Coronado Heights has to residents in Saline and McPherson Counties. Weston says ...

8 years ago
The mother of a 4-year-old autistic boy says she believes a Topeka police officer who rescued her son from a pond was sent by God. Officer Aaron Bulmer rescued the boy, Elijah Hamby, from a Central Park pond Sunday. He was on another call when he saw Elijah walking alone in the park and then lost ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a burglary at a storage unit. Police say sometime between noon last Friday and 2pm on Saturday, someone broke the lock on a unit at Salina Mini Storage, 2727 Centennial Road and removed numerous items and keepsakes including four, 1934 $20 bills. The renter, Jane Kinney told officers that a number of electric ...

8 years ago
A Kansas couple is donating $5 million to help build a student center at Fort Hays State University. The university announced Tuesday that Richard Fischli and Dolores Willis-Fischli, of Logan, recently committed the money to a center on the Hays campus that will give students a single place to stop for academic, medical and mental health ...

8 years ago
Saline County Commissioners began the 2018 budget process with a goal of providing the Sheriff’s Office with a realistic budget, with the “assumption” that department “won’t overspend in 2018”.  If all of Sheriff Roger Soldan’s budget requests are granted, spending for contingencies, overtime, contract housing and inmate medical would require that an additional $1,379,433 be ...

8 years ago
Another current commissioner will run in the upcoming election to retain a spot on the Salina City Commission. Melissa Hodges plans to run for election. Hodges has been a city commissioner since December, when the other commissioners selected her to take the place of Randall Hardy. Hodges was selected from a group of 14 different people ...

8 years ago
Kansas legislators have drafted a new and larger plan for raising income taxes to fix the state budget after top Republicans abruptly dropped one negotiated earlier. House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday evening on a plan to raise more than $1 billion over two years by rolling back past income tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. ...

8 years ago
A houseboat that was docked at an area pond was destroyed by fire on Monday evening. Crews from Rural Fire District #2 were called to the old Johnson Sand pit located at 1601 E. Schilling Road at about 6:45pm Monday after a 1978 Crest brand houseboat caught on fire. Owner Gary Johnson told Saline County Deputies he ...

8 years ago
A Solomon business man is jailed on charges tied to embezzlement in Salina. Police arrested 38-year-old Timothy A. Fowler on Monday after a 3-week long investigation revealed that he had been writing checks to himself and his business as the treasurer of the Salina Masonic Temple Foundation. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that from August of ...

8 years ago
Police say an 81-year-old Topeka man has been arrested in the deadly shooting of another man. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the suspect has been booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated assault and first-degree murder in the Monday night killing in the southwest part of the city. Capt. Jana Harden says police already had been contacted ...