8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary at a church in Assaria. Lt. Mike Smith tells KSAL News that sometime between 9pm Tuesday evening and 6am Wednesday someone broke into the Assaria Lutheran Church, 124 W. 1st Street, and stole a 60-inch flat screen television. Deputies say someone smashed a north window on the building ...

8 years ago
A woman from Abilene was injured in a single vehicle crash Wednesday. According to Lt. Mike Smith with the Saline County Sheriff's Office, 25-year-old Rebecca N. Smith and her 4-year-old daughter were transported to Salina Regional Health Center after a rollover accident on Old 40 Highway near Donmyer Road. Deputies say at 6:30pm Wednesday, Smith was driving ...

8 years ago
Textron Aviation is further strengthening its relationship with Kansas State University through a $150,000 donation to help the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus modernize its aviation program in the sky and on the ground. Textron Aviation’s generosity will dramatically increase the square footage of the Certified Flight Instructor, or CFI, Lab, creating more workspace for flight ...

8 years ago
Salina Firefighters made quick work of a kitchen fire late Wednesday morning. Salina Fire Marshall Roger Williams tells KSAL News that crews responded at around 11:00 in the morning to the report of a structure fire at a home at 1437 Kiowa. They discovered an active fire when they arrived. According to Williams, the resident was preparing ...

8 years ago
Victims who have been caught in the web of sex trafficking are finding restoration in a new program for adolescent girls at Saint Francis Community Services. "Usually youth that are ensnared in that lifestyle, that wasn't there first trauma," said Melanie Miller Garrett, director of the Clover House. "They grew up with abuse, with neglect, with not ...

8 years ago
A federal judge in Kansas has appointed an Ohio attorney to investigate whether recordings of attorney-client conversations at a for-profit federal prison violated inmates' constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson on Tuesday appointed David R. Cohen as special master, or expert, to identify and retain confidential information contained in recordings at the Corrections Corporation of ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shed burglary. Deputies report that sometime between October 5 and October 9, someone entered a storage shed on a property in the 10,700 block of East Schilling and stole a generator. Owner Diana Cameron told deputies the Pramac 5,000 watt portable generator is valued at $400. The storage shed was ...

8 years ago
Since 2006, law enforcement officers, fire fighters and EMT’s in Salina have come together every October to raise money for local families in need.  A charity flag football game has been played for 10 years. In 2014, the Salina Guns and Hoses organization was formed.  In the past two years, Salina Guns and Hoses has raised ...

8 years ago
A woman from Mexico who tried to hide a gun that her boyfriend used to fatally shot a Salina teen has pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge. The U.S. attorney's office says 22-year-old Azucena Garcia-Ferniza admitted Tuesday to one count of possession of a firearm while unlawfully in the United States. Federal court documents say Garcia-Ferniza ...

8 years ago
Engineering technology professor Raju Dandu, who has been a faculty member on the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus for almost 20 years, has been named the recipient of the 2016 Rex McArthur Family Faculty Fellow Award. The McArthur distinction, which annually recognizes a Kansas State Polytechnic professor for teaching excellence, a commitment to research and honorable ...

8 years ago
A recent inspection of Salina's Landfill by officials from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment earned a grade of "zero deficiencies" and praise from Salina City Manager Jason Gage. "Our folks out there do a heck of a job," Gage said. "They use the Lean Principles that we have been applying in our organization - we ...