8 years ago
A late night disturbance in a Salina front yard leads to the arrest of two intoxicated men. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that around 11:45pm Wednesday, Alton Doolittle heard voices and a commotion in front of his house at 715 Maple. He confronted two men outside and told them to leave. Doolittle called police after the two ...

8 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has vetoed a bill that would have extended the state's health coverage for the poor under former President Barack Obama's signature health care law. The conservative Republican governor made the move Thursday. He explained that he thinks the expansion would fail to serve the truly needy and would burden the state with ...

8 years ago
A woman is accused of stealing the pickup truck of a volunteer firefighter who had stopped to help her while she was stranded along Interstate 70 in Topeka then leading authorities on a chase. 23-year-old Erien Knox is charged with possession of stolen property and felony obstruction. Authorities say a man stopped to help douse a car ...

8 years ago
Steady rain and the threat of flash flooding has prompted the closure of USD 306 Southeast of Saline K-12 school. According to district officials no classes will be held today, Thursday, March 30th at SES.

8 years ago
A Salina man has been found guilty of killing a Nebraska man at a Salina motel. Court officials tell KSAL News that a jury came back with a guilty verdict on Wednesday against 22-year-old DiAntre Lemmie on charges that include 1st degree murder. A trial for Lemmie started last week, in connection with the April 2016 ...

8 years ago
With a perfect storm of heavy fuel, high winds and low humidity, wild fires roared through 23 Kansas counties in early March. One of the largest burned more than 800 square miles in Clark and Comanche counties, scorching more than 80 percent of Clark County. The fires had a devastating impact to those who lived ...

8 years ago
A fire that started on a kitchen stove badly damaged a Salina home Wednesday evening. Salina Fire Marshall Roger Williams tells KSAL News that first responders were dispatched at around 7:00 to the report of  a house on fire at 1125 E. Beloit. The first crews on scene discovered a working fire. "Flames were not visible, but ...

8 years ago
Authorities say two people were killed when a man driving the wrong-way on Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Kansas, collided with a pickup truck. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 34-year-old Troy Reliford of Lee's Summit, Missouri, and 30-year-old Tyrone Jennings Jr. of Kansas City, Kansas, died in the crash shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday. The patrol says ...

8 years ago
Murky, wet flying conditions on Wednesday did not ground the continued growth of the aviation program at Kansas State Polytechnic. Thanks to a Kansas Department of Transportation grant of $428,990 - officials at Salina Regional Airport will use the funds for repairs and maintenance of the ramp or apron area of the airport used by the ...

8 years ago
A traffic stop along Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County prompted arrests in connection with alleged alien smuggling. According to the U.S Attorney's Office in Wichita, six men from Mexico were indicted Tuesday in a case of alleged alien smuggling. Adrian Guzman-Rojas, 19, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with one count of knowingly transporting Mexican citizens who ...

8 years ago
Kansas legislators are considering a new proposal for raising personal income taxes as they wrestle with the state's serious budget problems. The House Taxation Committee expected to vote Wednesday on a plan favored by conservative Republicans to move the state to a "flat" personal income tax with a rate of 5 percent for all filers. The Senate ...