9 years ago
A man is facing multiple felony charges in connection with an early morning incident in which he was found hiding under a car by a police dog following a chase, and drugs were found on a school playground. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that it started at 5:05 in the morning on Tuesday, when an officer ...

9 years ago
An annual spring powwow at the University of Kansas is expanding into a daylong educational festival. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the 2016 KU Powwow and Indigenous Dance and Culture Festival will be Saturday at the Lied Center. The festival will feature workshops, food, a matinee and an evening powwow. Admission is free. Each event will kick ...

9 years ago
Saline County Commissioners heard John Lewis, President of the Lewis Publications, offer an alternative to routinely printing public notices in The Salina Journal.  Lewis said he could reduce the cost of what the County pays for printing public notices by half.  Lewis proposed starting a new paper; after it operated for a year, it would ...

9 years ago
The sounds of two legendary rock and roll bands will fill Salina's Stiefel Theatre. Creedence Clearwater Revival and Led Zeppelin will come alive in two big shows.  The venue is bringing Creedence Clearwater Revisited in August, and Get the Led Out in October. Creedence Clearwater Revisited Tuesday, August 23 @ 8pm Tickets go on-sale Friday, April 8. Tickets start ...

9 years ago
Agribusiness giant Cargill says it's considering moving several operations out of the Wichita buildings where they are headquartered. But the company hasn't said whether it's looking into moving the operations to another location within the city. Spokesman Mike Martin told The Wichita Eagle that all he could say was that the Minneapolis-based company was "looking at ...

9 years ago
Conservation of farmland and getting the soil to work all year long are just a couple of benefits found in maintaining cover crops. "It completes a system, you've got that soil working 12 months of the year," said Michael Plumer, Consultant with Conservation Agriculture in the United States. Plumer joined in on the KSAL Morning News ...

9 years ago
Authorities are investigating the death of a student at Fort Hays State University. A campus-wide notification went out Tuesday informing the FHSU community that a student had been found dead at a residence hall. The case is being handled as an unattended death, and an investigation is underway. Further details were not immediately released, including the student's ...

9 years ago
A couple of incidents in which a woman was sprayed in the face with mace, and nearly run over with a car, prompted the arrest of a Salina man on Monday. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that 25-year-old Justin Hatton was arguing with a female acquaintance Monday afternoon at around 1:30, in the 800 Block of ...

9 years ago
A "quick change" scammer ripped off the Salina Walmart store Saturday evening. According to Police Captain  Mike Sweeney, a man turned an $18 purchase of soap and lotion into a $700 loss for the store. The man began his transaction at the checkout lane paying for his purchase with a $100 bill. He proceeded to then confuse ...

9 years ago
A man was arrested after allegedly propositioning two boys for sex in a Salina park Monday evening. Salina Police say that at around 8:00 Monday night, 40-year-old Laurence Couillard approached two 13-year-old boys in Centennial Park. Allegedly, Couillard made an indecent sexual solicitation to the boys. The boys contacted police. Couillard was still in the park when ...

9 years ago
Crews will continue to patrol a wildfire that has burned hundreds of square miles of sparsely populated land in Kansas and Oklahoma. The fire, which started last week in Oklahoma before spreading to southern Kansas, has largely been contained. But Barber County Attorney Gaten Wood says crew will be watching the fire closely because of high ...