9 years ago
A fall from a radio tower Wednesday morning sent a man to the hospital. The accident happened at the former Rocking M Radio facility at 641 W. Cloud Street. In February, three radio stations that were located in the building moved into the Townsite Building at 131 N. Santa Fe in Downtown Salina. Wednesday morning a crew ...

9 years ago
A lawsuit by the state of Kansas accuses the man at the center of a multi-state lottery number-fixing scam of working with two others to redeem two bogus lottery tickets for $44,000. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Tuesday he filed the Shawnee County lawsuit against Eddie Tipton and two others who Schmidt says turned in ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after multiple hand tools were taken from a pickup bed with a hardcover. Police say owner Dustin Small told officers that sometime between February 18 and March 12, someone used a wire to break into the cab of his Ford F150, found the key to the bed's Tonneau cover and stole a ...

9 years ago
The Kansas House unanimously passed a sales tax exemption for supplies and services to repair or construct fencing for agricultural land. The bill passed Tuesday by the House is in response to fires that burned hundreds of thousands of acres in Kansas last week. The fires destroyed miles of fencing on ranches and farms, mostly in ...

9 years ago
A man from Chapman was transported to the hospital with chest pains following a 2 car crash in downtown Salina. Police say 21-year-old Wesley Robertson was driving westbound on Ash Street Tuesday around 11:30am and failed to yield to an eastbound vehicle driven by Jennifer Forrester of Salina. Police report that Robertson's 2001 Ford Mustang turned left ...

9 years ago
A house guest leaves a Salina home with over $4,000 worth of stolen items. Police are looking for a known suspect who was staying as a guest in a home in the 300 block of E. Bond until Tuesday. Homeowner Paul Caramico told officers the 18-year-old white male moved in about 3-days ago and left with multiple ...

9 years ago
In a move that surprised many people, at the conclusion of a lengthy executive session the Salina USD 305 Board of Education Tuesday night voted to non-renew Superintendent Bill Hall's contract. Among those surprised by the move were district officials and Superintendent Hall. District Officials tell KSAL News that the action was not anticipated. The district says ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators are advancing a new budget-balancing proposal to allow the state to pay its bills through June without cutting public school spending. The Senate Ways and Means Committee unanimously endorsed a bill Tuesday that would temporarily short state contributions to public employee pensions and use internal government borrowing to get through June. The full Senate ...

9 years ago
A beating that left a teen with broken bones in his face prompted the arrest of another teen. According to Salina Police, on February 23rd, an altercation involving two 17 year old boys at a home in east Salina left one of them with facial injuries. The victim did not initially seek medical attention. Several days later, ...

9 years ago
The man who admitted killing a Kansas police detective last year was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Curtis Ayers was sentenced Tuesday for the May 9 shooting death of Kansas City, Kansas, police Detective Brad Lancaster during a confrontation near the Kansas Speedway. Prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty when the 29-year-old Ayers ...

9 years ago
A state parole absconder was caught early Monday morning following a pursuit that began in Salina and ended with a crash in Clay County. According to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester, officers responded to the Value Inn  and Suites at 1640 W Crawford to a report that 20-year-old Lacy Rule was there. Rule was a wanted ...