8 years ago
Their smiles are captured in time - as they serve time in Kansas prisons. The Faces of Change exhibition by photographer Nick Vedros, now at the Salina Art Center is a collection of black and white portraits, taken of inmates that shine far beyond a mugshot. "He has humanized his subjects," said Bill North, Executive Director Salina ...

8 years ago
Authorities say a 12-year-old driver has struck a convenience store worker with a pickup truck, knocking the 71-year-old employee through a plate glass window. The employee was sent to a Wichita hospital with a possible leg fracture after being hit Tuesday while picking up trash outside the store in the small town of Walton. The young driver ...

8 years ago
A Kansas judge has ordered Secretary of State Kris Kobach to notify thousands of people who hadn't provided documents proving their citizenship that they will be allowed to vote for all offices in the November election. Shawnee County District Judge Larry Hendricks' order affects more than 19,545 voters who registered at motor vehicle offices or with ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after an argument turned violent on a porch. Police say a group of people were having a disagreement at a home located in the 2000 block of Page on Sunday , when a known suspect kicked an exterior door and shattered the glass window. Damage is estimated at $500.

8 years ago
The Salina Fire Department responded to a blaze that was sparked by a container of solvent at a business on Tuesday afternoon. According to Saline County Undersheriff Roger Soldan, firefighters were called to the distribution center at Advance Auto, 3633 S.9th at 3:55pm Tuesday. Soldan says a five gallon bucket of solvent dropped off a pallet while ...

8 years ago
No one was hurt after shots were fired at an occupied home in Salina early Wednesday. Police Sergeant Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that three adults were awakened by bullets hitting their house located at 2136 Huntington just after 2am Wednesday morning. Police say the shots were fired from a vehicle that then drove away from the ...

8 years ago
A Salina area man involved in a racist incident at Bethany College has been trying to gain a foothold in state politics. Chalk outlines of bodies and messages, including “Make Lindsborg White Again,” scrawled on Bethany College sidewalks earlier this month rattled the campus and surrounding community. A police report of the chalkings from Sept. 3 names ...

8 years ago
In a 3-1 vote, Saline County Commissioners accepted a bid to improve shoulders along roads that are heavily traveled by solid waste (aka trash removal) trucks.  The improvements will occur on the county maintained West Crawford to State Highway 140, south on Burma Road to Farley Road, and a section of Water Well Road. County Engineer ...

8 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's budget director is telling state agency secretaries that Brownback isn't planning to propose across-the-board cuts in their budgets next year. Budget Director Shawn Sullivan sent an email Tuesday to Cabinet secretaries saying some "reduced resources" proposals agencies submitted would be harmful. But Sullivan's email leaves open the possibility of Brownback proposing targeted budget ...

8 years ago
A Manhattan, Kansas, businessman who once was a backup quarterback at Kansas State faces November sentencing after admitting in court that he had improper sexual contact with a former high school student. Manhattan radio station KMAN reports that 38-year-old Zachary Burton pleaded guilty Monday in Riley County to one count of unlawful sexual relations. Authorities say the ...

8 years ago
This October, Kansas State University Libraries honors alumnus and Abilene native Marlin Fitzwater with an exhibit, "Marlin Fitzwater: From Wheat Fields to White House." Fitzwater, who received an honorary doctorate from Kansas State University in 2015, has donated his personal papers to the Richard L.D. & Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections at K-State Libraries. The ...