8 years ago
August Primary Election Day is August 2nd and despite some important races, Saline County Clerk Don Merriman is predicting a turnout below thirty percent. "It's going to be somewhat scant on election day, somewhere in the 22 to 25-percent range," Merriman said. Merriman tells KSAL News that advance voting at the City/County Building has been brisk at ...

8 years ago
Time is running out to apply for an 11-week course that gives citizens an inside look at law enforcement. "I'd like to have 25 people sign up for the Citizens Academy, that's my goal," said Salina Police Sergeant Brent Rupert. "We're taking applications up to this Friday and then starting August 16th." Rupert joined in on the KSAL ...

8 years ago
A county commissioner in western Kansas has been convicted of offering to loan a stock trailer to a woman in exchange for her vote in August 2012. The Kansas attorney general's office said in a news release Tuesday that 38-year-old Clinton Lee Kvasnicka was sentenced to 12 months of probation last week after pleading guilty to ...

8 years ago
Authorities say one person has died in a Wichita apartment fire. A Sedgwick County emergency dispatcher says the fire was reported around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday at the Buttonwood Tree apartments in the southeast part of the city. The Wichita Eagle reports that crews have knocked down the flames. The dispatcher said no other injuries have been reported. ...

8 years ago
A push for unity behind Hillary Clinton from Bernie Sanders is pulling his Kansas delegates at the Democratic National Convention into her camp, though not all of them. The state's delegation on Tuesday cast only 14 of its 37 votes for Clinton. It cast 23 votes for Sanders, in line with the results of state's presidential ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Commission Tuesday reviewed home health care statistics and acted on several Health Department matters.  Earlier, the City-County Building Authority discussed the impact of removing the signs banning handguns from the building. Home Health Care Discussed Armed with data, Health Department Director Jason Tiller supplied Commissioners with 17” x 11” spreadsheets of information about the ...

8 years ago
S&P Global Ratings says it's downgraded the state's credit rating because of its ongoing budget problems. The rating agency said Tuesday it has dropped its rating for Kansas to "AA-," from "AA." The action comes three months after S&P put the state on a negative credit watch. State Budget Director Shawn Sullivan says the S&P report cites ...

8 years ago
A 75-year-old eastern Kansas woman who is unable to get a replacement for her lost Arkansas birth certificate has been certified as a U.S. citizen, allowing her to vote. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the state Election Board issued the ruling Monday after meeting with Jo French of Osage County. Evidence of her citizenship included a ...

8 years ago
With the dust bowl days of the 1930's as a backdrop - area students will take the stage Thursday at the Salina Community Theatre for the musical "Bonnie and Clyde." The story traces the relationship between Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as they move from small town thieves to American folk heroes during the Great Depression. "The ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of some lawn mowing equipment from a storage shed. Deputies were called to a home north of Salina in the 5000 block of N. Prairie Ridge on Monday after Paul Pommer of Salina discovered a couple of push mowers, leaf blower, sprayer and trimmer had been taken ...

8 years ago
An inmate who escaped from the Dickinson County Jail in Abilene Monday night was back behind bars by late Tuesday morning. By Tuesday afternoon he was joined by an alleged accomplice. According to the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office, 27-year-old Trent Hostetter escaped Monday night, through a hole in a fence surrounding an outside exercise yard. Hostetter then ...