8 years ago
On June 25, 2016, Lori J. Heimer was brutally murdered in her home at 10525 S Hopkins Road, Assaria, Kansas. The Saline County Sheriff's Office, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and Saline County Attorney's Office are still actively investigating the case, and request the assistance of the public. Mrs. Heimer maintained a dog breeding business at her ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Wesleyan community rallied together Thursday night for a student undergoing serious health issues. Aaron Hurd, a sophomore at the university from Rockwall, TX, is a baseball player for KWU. While attending class on Tuesday, Hurd fell unconscious. A student in the class started performing CPR in the classroom until paramedics arrived. Hurd has been ...

8 years ago
A missing Salina Teen has been found. Family and friends had been looking for 16-year-old Mariah Peterson since Tuesday night, and feared for her safety. She was found safe on Thursday afternoon. --- ORIGINAL: Family and friends are trying to find a Salina teen who went missing this week, and who might be in danger. According to Kansas Missing and ...

8 years ago
As a large, overflow crowd of family, friends, and fellow officers looked on, a group of Kansas Highway Patrol recruits had their badges pinned on Thursday afternoon in Salina and officially became state troopers. The 34 new state troopers were part of KHP Recruit Class #56, the latest graduates from the Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy. ...

8 years ago
He came across the prairie cloaked in many different customs and traditions at Christmas. Saturday, Pioneer Santa will help young and old alike - look back at Christmas' past at the museum. "He doesn't have on the shiny suit," said Nona Miller, Education Coordinator with the Smoky Hill Museum. "And looking back at all the different nationalities that ...

8 years ago
An appeals court says a Marquette man serving a 260-year sentence in a Kansas child pornography case must liquidate his union retirement account and apply that money he hid from the court to provide restitution to the victims. Wednesday's ruling by a Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upholds a federal judge's ruling against ...

8 years ago
Authorities are trying to determine what caused a Kansas grain bin to collapse and spill about 250,000 bushels of corn on the ground. The Hays Post reports that no one was injured when the bin gave way around 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Morris County community of White City. Morris County Emergency Management director Chris Blackledge says ...

8 years ago
A Salina bank employees discovered a counterfeit $100 this week. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a staff member at  First Bank Kansas, 2860 S. 9th, found a fake $100 inside the facility on Wednesday and called authorities. Police say the bill was marked, "For Motion Picture Use Only."

8 years ago
Actress Kirstie Alley has decorated a Wichita home she owns with a Santa's Village set she saved from her 1993 film "Look Who's Talking Now." It had been several years since she put up the set in her childhood hometown. The set appeared in a scene where Alley, playing Mollie Ubriacco, loses her job and needs ...

8 years ago
A fire badly damaged a central Salina home late Wednesday afternoon. First responders were called at around 4:45 to the report of a residential fire at a home in the Indian Village area. They discovered a home at 1520 Cheyenne on fire. Salina Fire Department Investigator Troy Long told KSAL News at the scene that the first ...

8 years ago
Kansas has announced plans to review its Amber Alert system after a faulty alert this week. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a release Wednesday that he's ordered a review of the state's Amber Alert operations after a Wichita Amber Alert on Tuesday failed to activate on cellphones. The alert was issued after a woman and ...