8 years ago
The Kansas Senate has rejected a proposal from its top Republican leader to cut state spending by $105 million to help the state avoid a budget deficit on June 30. The vote Thursday was 33-7 against the proposal from President Susan Wagle of Wichita. She offered it as an amendment to bill aimed at getting the ...

8 years ago
USD 305 Superintendent Bill Hall says he will stay the course and continue to lead Salina's schools, despite a 4-3 vote to non-renew his contract in two years. "I believe I owe it to this community to commit to the school system and move forward and finish the things that we have started, " Hall said ...

8 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo has lost a beloved member of their animal family. The zoo says Clyde, the 40 year old male Sumatran orangutan, passed away as he was being prepared for surgery Wednesday morning. Clyde was going into surgery for suspected air sacculitis, a disease condition that is often fatal in orangutans and other primates, with ...

8 years ago
A couple returns to their motel room and discovers the door was left open by a burglar. Salina Police report Bradley and Dawn Holmes left their room at the Airliner Motel around 1am Thursday and returned at about 3:30am to find the door open and numerous items gone including their English bulldog. Police say the thief gained ...

8 years ago
A trailer owned by a janitorial supply company was stolen from a residential street. Salina Police report a 6-foot by 10-foot enclosed trailer owned by Sage Products, 732 N. 9th was stolen sometime earlier this month while parked at the home of a former employee in the 1800 block of North 5th Street. The company contacted police ...

8 years ago
A federal judge has dismissed part of a Title IX lawsuit filed against Kansas State by two women who allege they were raped at off-campus fraternity houses. The court dismissed the claims of one former Kansas State student because her alleged assault occurred at a private apartment complex. But U.S. Judge Julie Robinson denied Kansas State's motion ...

8 years ago
Students at a Salina middle school Wednesday experienced what one teacher described as a "dream come true kind of day." Radio Disney Country Star Tegan Marie made a stop at Salina South Middle School as part of the Give a Note Foundation's fourth annual "Music In Our Schools - Music Inspires Tour." Music teacher Matt Gerry ...

8 years ago
A Salina man who was hurt in a motorcycle crash a couple of weeks ago has died. Salina Police tell KSAL News that 60-year-old John Pihl died from complications from injuries sustained in the crash. Back on March 4th Pihl was involved in a three-vehicle crash at the intersection of Iron and Ohio in Salina. Police ...

8 years ago
A fall from a radio tower Wednesday morning sent a man to the hospital. The accident happened at the former Rocking M Radio facility at 641 W. Cloud Street. In February, three radio stations that were located in the building moved into the Townsite Building at 131 N. Santa Fe in Downtown Salina. Wednesday morning a crew ...

8 years ago
A lawsuit by the state of Kansas accuses the man at the center of a multi-state lottery number-fixing scam of working with two others to redeem two bogus lottery tickets for $44,000. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Tuesday he filed the Shawnee County lawsuit against Eddie Tipton and two others who Schmidt says turned in ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after multiple hand tools were taken from a pickup bed with a hardcover. Police say owner Dustin Small told officers that sometime between February 18 and March 12, someone used a wire to break into the cab of his Ford F150, found the key to the bed's Tonneau cover and stole a ...