8 years ago
An ER patient's angry rant lands him in jail. Salina police officers were called to Salina Regional Health Center on Wednesday afternoon at 3:06pm after a man lashed out at nurses in the Emergency Room. Police say 36-year-old Randy Nease became violent while be treated, shattering the screen on a monitor as he tore it off the ...

8 years ago
A man accused of firing a gun at another man in the Salina Lowe's parking lot has been taken into custody. Police arrested 22-year-old Justice J. Kennedy on Wednesday. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that an officer on patrol spotted Kennedy sitting on the front porch of a home in the 600 block of S. Santa ...

8 years ago
A judge has denied a man's efforts to withdraw a plea in connection with the 2015 killing of a Salina teen. Officials tell KSAL News that Judge Rene Young on Wednesday denied a motion from 18-year-old Andrew Woodring to withdraw his no contest plea to felony murder in the death of 17-year-old Allie Saum. Back on July ...

8 years ago
Authorities say three Salina men have been charged in connection with the shooting of a southern Illinois police officer last month. Carbondale, Illinois,  police said in a news release that the three men were arrested Sunday and Monday in Salina. Those arrested include: Alex Karcher, 22, of 1616 Tanglewood Lane Xavier McCray, 22, 1012 Pershing Xavier ...

8 years ago
Tim Bower, a computer systems technology professor at Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus, is being recognized for his teaching methods in robotics programming by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. Bower composed an article in April last year about his strategies for educating beginning students on the complexities of robotics and it was ...

8 years ago
A shot of adrenaline in the form of a $2 million grant will help in the relocation, and expansion, of the Salina campus of the KU School of Medicine. The Dane G. Hansen Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the Salina Regional Health Foundation to assist in the remodeling of the new medical education ...

8 years ago
The Class of 2029 will begin their education journey on Thursday morning in Salina - in an All-Day Kindergarten classroom. "It's going to be so exciting, seeing all those kindergarten kids actually come and stay for lunch and stay for the entire day," said Superintendent Bill Hall. "Research absolutely supports the need for All-Day K and absolutely ...

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8 years ago
Police are looking for a white male with red hair who attempted to leave a Salina business with a power saw on Tuesday evening without paying. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, staff at Waters True Value Hardware, 460 S. Ohio, confronted the suspect after he used store wire cutters to sever the theft protection cord from ...

8 years ago
A Salina woman is jailed on charges that she took part in a home invasion and battered a woman inside. Police arrested 49-year-old Lisa Hinderliter on a warrant Tuesday in connection to an incident at an east Salina home on June 6th. Police allege that Hinderliter and a male accomplice forced their way into the house, grabbed ...

8 years ago
This weekend, troopers across the state of Kansas will be mobilizing for a statewide Roving Aggressive Violation Enforcement, or RAVE, to address the increase in fatal crashes. The enforcement will be held Friday and Saturday. A RAVE is a saturation patrol that takes place when many troopers converge on a specific area looking for any drivers ...