9 years ago
The University of St. Mary is mourning the death of former basketball player Marcus Mondaine. Mondaine was found fatally shot Saturday in a Kansas City, Missouri, house. An arrest warrant has been issued for a person of interest. Mondaine was finishing his final semester at the private liberal arts university in Leavenworth. Before his last season ended ...

9 years ago
A cell phone theft and a damaged car highlight Tuesday's Salina Police Log. A thief stole cell phones from a couple of students at Salina Central High School Monday afternoon. Police say that sometime between 3:00 and 4:30 in the afternoon a Galaxy S7 phone and an Apple iPhone 6s were stolen from the gym area. ...

9 years ago
Kansas says its tax collections fell nearly $45 million short of expectations in September. The report Monday from the state Department of Revenue complicates the state's budget picture five weeks before the election. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's fiscal policies are a major issue in legislative races. The department said tax collections were $521 million last month, 7.9 ...

9 years ago
Democrats and voting rights advocates are ramping up voter registration drives across Kansas in the wake of recent court rulings allowing thousands of people to more easily register with a federal form or at motor vehicle offices without providing citizenship documents. But the state's Republican Party contends those court cases are "practically irrelevant" to the November ...

9 years ago
A Salina man was arrested Sunday on forgery charges after police say he forged a couple of personal checks in mid-September at Dillons, 2350 Planet Ave. for a total of $458.67. Upon arrest, police found 36-year-old Bradly Holmes in possession of personal use of meth and drug paraphernalia.   A high-end bicycle was stolen from a Salina ...

9 years ago
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the case of a Kansas serial killer who stuffed the bodies of several victims into barrels. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says Monday's ruling leaves John Robinson's capital murder conviction and death sentence intact. Robinson was convicted of killing seven women and a teenage girl in Kansas and ...

9 years ago
Police arrested a Salina man after he allegedly stole his neighbor's car. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that  31-year-old Maurice Scott, 1664 Beverly Drive, was found in possession of a stolen vehicle on Sunday near Salina on Highway 81. Police were contacted by an eyewitness who observed a man opening doors on vehicles in the 1600 ...

9 years ago
A former Salina golf course employee was arrested on charges of forging payroll checks. Salina Police arrested 38-year-old James R. Hay on Sunday for allegedly creating a template that resembled Salina Country Club payroll checks. Police say Hay forged two checks to himself and cashed them in mid-September at the Money Zone, 1819 S. Broadway and the ...

9 years ago
A Lincoln, Kansas man is booked into the Saline County Jail on charges that include attempted 2nd degree murder in a domestic assault case in Salina. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 25-year-old Sawyer A. Reinert was taken into custody on Saturday in Ellsworth County and transported to the jail. Sweeney says the investigation began after a woman ...

9 years ago
The world famous Harlem Globetrotters are coming to Salina. The Globetrotters will bring their family show of basketball and entertainment to Salina, when their 2017 world tour rolls into the Bicentennial Center on January 21st. The Globetrotters recently wrapped a busy 90th year tour, during which they named Pope Francis the ninth Honorary Harlem Globetrotter in team ...

9 years ago
A woman from New Cambria was killed in a motorcycle crash Sunday night in Dickinson County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 71-year-old Joyce Morgan was riding a 2000 Honda motorcycle, headed west on K 18 Highway. A 2017 Ford Escape was headed south on Barn Road. It failed to stop at a stop sign at K ...