8 years ago
Police say a man is in custody after he allegedly tried to choke a 4-month-old baby he didn't know at a Kansas City-area Walmart. Overland Park police say the man walked up to a woman who was in a checkout lane early Wednesday and began choking her baby. The woman screamed and the man stopped. Police say ...

8 years ago
The State Fire Marshal's office is investigating the cause of an explosion that destroyed a rural home and injured one person early Wednesday morning south of Beverly. According to Beverly Fire Chief Jon Ahlquist, one person was flown to a Wichita hospital for treatment following the explosion and fire that happened around 7:30am Wednesday. KSAL News will ...

8 years ago
Salina Police took a man into custody Wednesday morning after shots were fired into a business. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that just before 11am a male suspect fired at least one shot into the window at LoanMax located at 600 S. Broadway. Police say the weapon fired was a BB gun and shattered a window. No ...

8 years ago
Kansas regulators are threatening to halt the $12.2 billion sale of Topeka-based Westar Energy to Great Plains Energy if they don't get details on cost savings and other information. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Kansas Corporation Commission took no action at a Tuesday meeting. But an order warned that if merger standards aren't met, possible action ...

8 years ago
No one was injured in a suspected arson fire in a vacant Salina apartment. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that just before 4pm Tuesday, someone placed a shower curtain over a stove top in an empty unit in an apartment house at 240 S. 8th Street and then turned on the burner. A resident in ...

8 years ago
For the 25th year in a row the Smoky Hill Museum is offering a way to be ready for the holidays. As the holiday season approaches, it’s time to think about the cheer that the 25th Annual Friends of the Smoky Hill Museum’s Poinsettia & Wreath Sale can bring to many. The most beautiful, nursery-quality poinsettias ...

8 years ago
The Salina Police Department is planning a fun Halloween event. The agency is inviting community members to attend Cops and Costumes, on October 31 from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Cops and Costumes includes: Giveaways: candy, sticker badges, glow sticks, crayons and coloring books Meet and greet with police officers Photo opportunities with police officers Police vehicles on display Cops ...

8 years ago
A Salina man is facing federal charges connected with alleged child sex crimes. A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Tuesday charging a Salina man with producing and distributing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. Michael N. Rodenbeek, 53, is charged with three counts of producing child pornography, one count of distributing child pornography, ...

8 years ago
An 8-foot-long tusk of a mammoth uncovered earlier this year by a southern Kansas construction company has been moved to a lab at Wichita State University. The tusk will be cleaned and prepped for display in the Kingman County city of Cunningham, where it was found as Skyland Grain LLC ran a sewer line across a ...

8 years ago
Kansas man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months in prison for helping a would-be jihadist's unsuccessful plan to plant what they thought was a bomb at Fort Riley Army base. Alexander Blair, 29, also was sentenced to two years of supervised probation. He was accused of loaning $100 to 21-year-old John T. Booker Jr. to store ...

8 years ago
A former prison guard at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth has been sentenced to two years of probation for accepting bribes in exchange for providing inmates with contraband tobacco. The U.S. attorney's office says 53-year-old Michael Harston, of Kansas City, Missouri, also was ordered Monday to serve six months home confinement and pay $4,800 in fines. The ...