8 years ago
Three federal inmates serving time in Kansas-related drug cases are getting their sentences shortened by President Barack Obama. Those commutations were among 153 announced Monday by the White House, along with 78 pardons. That's the largest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any president. Under Obama's action Monday, Demetri Alexander's 15-year sentence received in 2007 ...

8 years ago
Authorities are searching for a Kansas man whose vehicle was found abandoned over the weekend. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has issued an endangered person release for 24-year-old Devyn Long of Welda. His vehicle was found abandoned Saturday morning southwest of Garnett. He is believed to be in danger. Authorities are asking anyone ...

8 years ago
Police are reviewing video surveillance footage from a Salina store after a group of people walked out with 3 carts full electronics on Tuesday evening without paying. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a greeter at Wal-Mart, 2900 S. 9th attempted to match the items packed in 3 carts with a sales receipt the group ...

8 years ago
The votes cast by Kansas' six members of the Electoral College for President-elect Donald Trump have been greeted by boos from some of the dozens of people who watched. The Republican electors met Monday in the Kansas Senate chamber. Trump received nearly 57 percent of the vote in Kansas. About 80 people crammed into the Senate's west ...

8 years ago
State analysts say Westar Energy is putting shareholder enrichment ahead of reasonable electric rates for customers with its proposed sale to Kansas City Power & Light. The Wichita Eagle reports that analysts representing the staff of the Kansas Corporation Commission and the Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Board raised the concerns in hundreds of pages of testimony filed ...

8 years ago
A new commissioner will take a seat on the Salina City Commission. Commissioners on Monday by a vote of 3-1 named Melissa Hodges to replace Randall Hardy. The vote to name Hodges as a commissioner came after commissioners first deadlocked 2-2 on naming Joe Hay Jr. as a commissioner. Hay narrowly lost out in the last ...

8 years ago
Police in Wichita, Kansas, say a 16-year-old girl died after accidentally shooting herself. Wichita police Lt. Jason Stephens says 16-year-old Nautica Whittker shot herself unintentionally early Saturday when she and other teenagers were playing with a shotgun in the basement of a home she was visiting. Whittker died at the scene. Stephens says the shotgun belonged to a ...

8 years ago
A Mexican woman was sentenced Monday for actions she took following the shooting death of a Salina teen. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, 22-year-old Azucena Garcia-Ferniza was sentenced to time served, and she will also be deported. Garcia-Ferniza spent about 15 months in jail. She pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Wichita to one count ...

8 years ago
Police are investigating after a man in his 40's was assaulted and robbed in his room at the Airliner Motel, 781 N. Broadway on Saturday afternoon just after 5pm. The victim told officers that two men knocked on his door - then kicked it in and assaulted him and also pointed a pistol at him ...

8 years ago
Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office responded to 11 weather related accidents over the weekend. Sheriff-elect Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that  between Friday and Sunday, icy road conditions contributed to 11 crashes, one involved 3 vehicles with minor injuries that no one was treated for. Another crash involved an ambulance from Salina EMS on Saturday ...

8 years ago
A Salina woman was arrested on Friday after she allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit bill at a gas station. Officers arrested 38-year-old Kristina M. Albers after staff at Rod's Total, 1401 S. Santa Fe called police after Albers tried to use a bogus $50 bill to pay for merchandise at the store. Police say she gave ...