9 years ago
Salina Police were called to a domestic dispute at an apartment building on East Iron Sunday afternoon. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a neighbor called police at about 4:20pm after hearing a dispute escalate next door. Officers arrested 41-year-old Terry Rogers for violated a 'no contact' protection order - put in place to protect the ...

9 years ago
A man and woman are facing charges after allegedly attacking an acquaintance in a Salina home. Police say Lance Viar was punched in the face by 32-year-old Patricia Robbins and 45-year-old Cody Ehrlich while he was visiting with a group of people in a home at 1408 S. 11th on Sunday evening. Police allege Robbins and Ehrlich ...

9 years ago
Deputies arrested 25-year-old Adam Cross of Salina following a short chase on Sunday. Officers say Cross was weaving in his lane while southbound on I-135 and did not stop when the deputy attempted to make a stop near Crawford. He continued south and exited at Magnolia and drove to his home in the 200 block ...

9 years ago
Classes have been canceled in two rural western Kansas school districts because of law enforcement situation at a home. South Gray High school principal Tim Skinner says classes are canceled Monday in the Montezuma and Copeland school districts. The Gray County sheriff's office said in a Facebook post that deputies and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation ...

9 years ago
Deputies with the Saline County Sherrif's Office handed out seven citations over the weekend to drivers who were out mudding in trucks on wet roads. Undersherrif Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that deputies responded to multiple locations around Saline County - where pickup trucks where stuck in the mud on roads posted "Closed When Wet." Soldan says ...

9 years ago
Investigators follow information provided from a Salina pawn shop - back to a burglary suspect. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, 25-year-old Joshua Mudd was arrested over the weekend on burglary and theft charges. Police say Mudd entered a home at 828 Choctaw on two occasions, April 24th and April 26th and removed items that were staged by ...

9 years ago
A fight outside a Salina area bar sends one man to the hospital, the other to jail. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office were called to Outlaws, 1676 W. State at 11:15pm on Saturday night to the report of a fight. Officers found 37-year-old Mario Brown of Hutchinson on the ground complaining of leg pain. Brown was ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators have approved a plan for balancing the state budget that gives Republican Gov. Sam Brownback broad discretion to make spending cuts. The Senate approved the measure on a 22-18 vote early Monday morning. The measure initially was failing, but several GOP senators switched their votes. The House approved the plan earlier Monday morning, 63-59. The ...

9 years ago
A chilly, wet day did not dampen the enthusiasm at a gathering in Lakewood Park to "Discover Salina, Naturally."  The unique Salina event was a celebration of the natural side of Salina, and positive environmental impacts that are being made in the community. There were nearly 60 booths and exhibits at Discover Salina, Naturally. Mixed in ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Court of Appeals says a hospital can deny unemployment benefits to a former employee who objected to receiving a flu vaccine. The appeals panel affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing the case of Debra Rhodenbaugh, who had been an emergency department clerk at McPherson Hospital. In 2013, she objected to getting vaccinated after the ...

9 years ago
Top Republicans in the Kansas Legislature hope to finish work on a plan for balancing a state budget that would require GOP Gov. Sam Brownback to do most of the work. The House was taking the measure up first Sunday. If its members approved the bill, the Senate would decide whether to send it to Brownback. Rejection ...