8 years ago
The Kansas House unanimously passed a sales tax exemption for supplies and services to repair or construct fencing for agricultural land. The bill passed Tuesday by the House is in response to fires that burned hundreds of thousands of acres in Kansas last week. The fires destroyed miles of fencing on ranches and farms, mostly in ...

8 years ago
A man from Chapman was transported to the hospital with chest pains following a 2 car crash in downtown Salina. Police say 21-year-old Wesley Robertson was driving westbound on Ash Street Tuesday around 11:30am and failed to yield to an eastbound vehicle driven by Jennifer Forrester of Salina. Police report that Robertson's 2001 Ford Mustang turned left ...

8 years ago
A house guest leaves a Salina home with over $4,000 worth of stolen items. Police are looking for a known suspect who was staying as a guest in a home in the 300 block of E. Bond until Tuesday. Homeowner Paul Caramico told officers the 18-year-old white male moved in about 3-days ago and left with multiple ...

8 years ago
In a move that surprised many people, at the conclusion of a lengthy executive session the Salina USD 305 Board of Education Tuesday night voted to non-renew Superintendent Bill Hall's contract. Among those surprised by the move were district officials and Superintendent Hall. District Officials tell KSAL News that the action was not anticipated. The district says ...

8 years ago
Kansas legislators are advancing a new budget-balancing proposal to allow the state to pay its bills through June without cutting public school spending. The Senate Ways and Means Committee unanimously endorsed a bill Tuesday that would temporarily short state contributions to public employee pensions and use internal government borrowing to get through June. The full Senate ...

8 years ago
A beating that left a teen with broken bones in his face prompted the arrest of another teen. According to Salina Police, on February 23rd, an altercation involving two 17 year old boys at a home in east Salina left one of them with facial injuries. The victim did not initially seek medical attention. Several days later, ...

8 years ago
The man who admitted killing a Kansas police detective last year was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Curtis Ayers was sentenced Tuesday for the May 9 shooting death of Kansas City, Kansas, police Detective Brad Lancaster during a confrontation near the Kansas Speedway. Prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty when the 29-year-old Ayers ...

8 years ago
A state parole absconder was caught early Monday morning following a pursuit that began in Salina and ended with a crash in Clay County. According to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester, officers responded to the Value Inn  and Suites at 1640 W Crawford to a report that 20-year-old Lacy Rule was there. Rule was a wanted ...

8 years ago
A man on the latest list of Salina's Most Wanted was arrested Monday after a foot pursuit that ended with him pulling a gun on officers. According to Police Captain Paul Forrester officers located 47-year-old Richard Long walking in the 900 block of Highland at 1:25 in the afternoon. Long had three outstanding warrants and was ...

8 years ago
A man from Abilene was arrested in rural Saline County early Tuesday morning after leading sheriff deputies on a high speed pursuit reaching speeds of over 100 miles-per-hour. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan says at 1:25 in the morning a deputy conducted a traffic stop in the 2200 block of west K 140 Highway. The deputy ...

8 years ago
Douglas County authorities are still trying to identify a body found in a burning car last week near Clinton Lake. Authorities say deputies sent to the Rockhaven Campground near the lake last Tuesday on a report of a fire. They discovered the body inside the car when the fire was extinguished. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Douglas County ...