8 years ago
A Salina man accused in bloody incidents in which several people were injured with sharp weapons including a samurai sword and a large knife avoided a trial Tuesday.  A trial for 34-year-old John James Brown had been scheduled to begin in Saline County District Court. Before the trial started Brown reached a plea agreement. Instead of ...

8 years ago
A federal judge has sided with immigration agents in a lawsuit filed by a Kenyan man who alleges he was violently attacked at a Kansas jail for refusing to be fingerprinted before deportation. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil's decision on Tuesday reverses her previous ruling that had granted a trial for Justine Mochama, an international college ...

8 years ago
A trans-Atlantic pancake race has taken a battering due to a technological glitch. Apron-clad women carrying and flipping pancakes in their pans have run through the English town of Olney in an annual Shrove Tuesday race that pits the community against the town of Liberal, Kansas. But the timer failed, so no official time was recorded for ...

8 years ago
Police are looking for vandals who damaged a half-dozen vehicle windows with a bb gun. Police Captain Paul Forrester says sometime between 8:00 Saturday night and 8:00 Sunday morning windows were shot on six vehicles. All of the vehicles were parked in the street, in the 400 block of S 12th Street and north into N ...

8 years ago
The Salina Stiefel Theatre is welcoming four more acts to an already busy spring / summer schedule. The Salina venue announced four more big shows Monday afternoon. Shows announced include a young up and coming country star, a classic rocker, an "outlaw American / Texas"  country group, and a group of internet sensation musicians. [gallery ids="25653"] SCOTTIE MCCREERY FRIDAY, ...

8 years ago
Police are looking for a woman with green, pink and purple hair who cut the security cord on an iPhone 7-plus and ran out of Radio Shack, 1103 W. Crawford on Saturday. Loss and damage is $800.   Police report the theft of a Craftsman 1500 watt generator and Craftsman power washer from a storage unit at ...

8 years ago
An argument inside a moving vehicle takes a turn into a couple of mailboxes. Police arrested 26-year-old Andre Satterfield of Salina on Saturday evening after he had a disagreement with a female acquaintance inside her 2008 Ford Edge. Police say Satterfield reached over and grabbed the wheel of the car - forcing the vehicle to run into ...

8 years ago
A Kansas filmmaker's drone video of the Kansas wheat harvest will premiere next month at the New York City Drone Film Festival. Doug Armknecht's video, "Beauty & Bounty," show the 2016 harvest at his wife's family's farm in Osborne County. The Wichita Eagle reported Monday that his video  is among 32 entries accepted to be shown March ...

8 years ago
A couple comes home Saturday night to discover a burglar sitting on a golf cart inside their garage. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that homeowner Ray Smith called authorities just before midnight after opening his garage door to find 21-year-old Phillip Hamilton sitting on Smith's golf cart. As the couple entered the home they ...

8 years ago
Investigators continue to piece together a shooting that sent a Salina man to the hospital last Thursday and another to jail after shots were fired inside a pickup. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that detectives are today interviewing a woman in McPherson, who was also shot in that truck last week. 18-year-old Madeline Small was ...

8 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts is facing a daunting task as drafting begins on the 2018 Farm Bill amid challenges confronting farmers in the President Donald Trump era. He and U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall were in Kansas this week for the first field hearing of the Senate agriculture committee and meetings with constituents about worries over the ...