8 years ago
Fire destroys a tractor and baler in a field on South Burma Road Tuesday. Saline County Undersheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that just before 4:30pm, Robert Lapeyre of Mentor was operating the tractor pulling a baler in the 3000 block of S. Burma when he noticed flames behind him. He told deputies that attempts to unhook ...

8 years ago
A Salina man was killed in a head-on collision on Interstate 70 east of Salina early Wednesday morning. Saline County Sheriff Deputy Ricky Heinrich told KSAL News at the scene that a 2002 silver Jaguar was headed west. As the car was approaching the area of the Niles Road exit, for an unknown reason it crossed ...

8 years ago
A 14-year-old driver rolled a truck he was driving Tuesday morning east of Salina, sending himself and four other teens to the hospital. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 14-year-old Ryan Andrew Keyser was driving a 2003 GMC Sierra 1500, headed west on Magnolia Road, and lost control. The truck began to spin, and rolled. Keyser, and ...

8 years ago
A group of guys pedaling across the country to raise awareness, and money to help in the fight against childhood brain cancer are taking a pit stop in Salina this week. "Team Maddie" is taking Tuesday and Wednesday off for a little rest and recovery. The guys are in the middle of a journey that ...

8 years ago
Health Department Director Jason Tiller briefed County Commissioners on partial results from recent screenings of residents for elevated blood lead levels.  Tiller said that with 92% of results in, only one of over 300 blood samples has tested positive for elevated levels of lead.  Tiller promised future updates as additional results become known.  On June ...

8 years ago
A company is hoping to open a dinosaur adventure park in Derby. The Wichita Eagle reports that Field Station: Dinosaurs wants to replicate its park on the East Coast on the north side of the city. The $39 million park would include life-size animatronic dinosaurs, a three-dimensional theater, dig site and interactive paleontology lab among other features. The ...

8 years ago
Kansas is set to miss out on about $800,000 in arts funding this year because state spending doesn't meet a minimum set by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Wichita Eagle reports that the state is about $250,000 short of the minimum needed to receive federal matching funds for the NEA. Kansas allocated $191,000 in ...

8 years ago
The U.S. government has announced it is removing the lesser prairie chicken from a federal protection list under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday the move follows recent court rulings in Texas that stripped the lesser prairie chicken of federal protection. However, federal officials say the removal didn't mean authorities ...

8 years ago
Kansas City, Kansas, Police Chief Terry Zeigler says that an officer who was shot and killed came after officers responded to a drive-by shooting. Zeigler says the suspected vehicle fled at about 2 p.m. Tuesday and led police on a chase. That chase ended when Capt. Robert Melton arrived and the suspects jumped out of the car ...

8 years ago
Federal court records indicate a woman accused of giving her former boyfriend guns that he used in a shooting at a Kansas lawn equipment factory is planning to change her plea. The Hutchinson News reports that a Monday court filing shows a jury trial for 28-year-old Sarah Jo Hopkins has been canceled and a plea change ...

8 years ago
Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas has endorsed Donald Trump in a short speech at the Republican National Convention. The Hutchinson News reports that that Roberts denounced presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a five-minute speech Monday on the opening day of the convention in Cleveland. He also lavished praise on vice presidential pick Mike Pence, ...