8 years ago
It was as if Downtown Salina went back in time Thursday night. The streets came alive with loud music and engines roaring as cruisers took over Santa Fe. Thousands of people lined Downtown Salina to be a part of the official opening event of the 2017 Leadsled Spectacular Car Show, the "Sunset Cruise"down Santa Fe. Rocking M ...

8 years ago
A former Army soldier was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in federal prison for child abuse. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, 30-year-old Eugene Cleaver of Bonham, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse. In his plea, he admitted the crime occurred while he was stationed at Fort Riley where he lived with four minor ...

8 years ago
Authorities say no one was seriously injured when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a cattle truck in eastern Kansas. The livestock trailer was split in half in the Thursday morning collision near the small town of Reading, northeast of Emporia. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari told The Associated Press that at least two of the three crew ...

8 years ago
Four wheeled beauties – with plenty of horses under the hood will be roaming the streets of Downtown Salina Thursday evening. Penny Bettles with Salina Downtown Inc. tells KSAL News they are expecting some 200 to 300 cars to roll down Santa Fe during the Sunset Cruise tonight. “There’s about 2,000 vintage and custom cars coming to ...

8 years ago
Closing homeless shelters and reports on homeless counts show that Wichita's homeless population is declining. The Wichita Eagle reports that data collected in the annual point-in-time homeless counts show chronic homeless in Wichita has dropped 42 percent from 2015 to 2017. Service providers for the homeless say the most significant drops are among veterans and the ...

8 years ago
A woman who earned the trust of an elderly Salina couple is arrested after allegedly using their credit card for personal purchases. Police took 35-year-old Angel M. Flener into custody on Wednesday after an investigation revealed she used their Discover Card on July 20 to make purchases at Wal-Mart, K-Mart and the Dillon's Supermarket on E. ...

8 years ago
Riley County Police and Lawrence Police, working together, released new information Thursday morning about a serial rapist who is believed to have attacked over a dozen women from 2000 to 2008 in the college towns of Manhattan and Lawrence. An attempted rape in 2015 is also believed to be connected. The Kansas attorney general's office announced ...

8 years ago
Check your tickets, lottery players. Though there was not a grand prize winner, there was a million dollar winning lottery ticket sold in Kansas for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing. According to the Kansas Lottery, one ticket sold in is worth $1,000,000 after it matched the first five numbers, but not the Powerball, to win the “Match ...

8 years ago
Authorities have new information about a serial rapist who is believed to have attacked 13 women from 2000 to 2008 in the college towns of Manhattan and Lawrence. A news conference is planned for Thursday morning in Manhattan to discuss an ongoing investigation into the rapes that terrorized the Kansas State and University of Kansas campuses. The ...

8 years ago
A Kansas lawmaker who heads a budget subcommittee says he'll push next year for a pay increase of as much as 20 percent for corrections officers at state prisons. Republican Rep. J.R. Claeys of Salina announced his proposal following an uprising last month at the state's maximum-security prison in El Dorado. His plan could cost as ...

8 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is looking to take an ambassadorship in President Donald Trump's administration. The White House announced Wednesday that Trump will nominate the Republican governor to serve as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. If confirmed by the Senate, he'll run the State Department's office of International Religious Freedom. Brownback has scheduled a news conference Thursday ...