9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow teachers and school administrators to be prosecuted for presented material perceived as harmful to minors. The bill passed the Senate last year and was considered in a House committee Tuesday. It stems from a 2014 controversy in the Shawnee Mission school district over ...

9 years ago
A man of firsts will be highlighted during the First Thursday Presentation tomorrow at the Smoky Hill Museum. Robert Caldwell was born in Pittsburgh, Kansas just before WW I, and broke social barriers to became the first African-American Mayor in Salina. Marie Johnson joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a look back at Caldwell, "What ...

9 years ago
Work at a Salina quarry has been recognized for its conservation efforts with a Governor's Award. According to Kansas Department of Agriculture Division of Conservation, Alsop Sand Co. Inc. of Concordia has been awarded the 2015 Governor’s Mined Land Reclamation Award for their reclamation work at their Salina quarry. This award is presented to a company ...

9 years ago
The craft show at the Smoky Hill River Festival is one of the top 50 in the country. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, the national ranking of the Smoky Hill River Festival’s Four Rivers Craft Show rose 57 slots in the annual Art Fair SourceBook ranking for 2015, released January 16. The Four Rivers Craft Show ...

9 years ago
Police are looking for a thief who allegedly embezzled a large amount of money from a Salina man's disability account. 38-year-old Nathan Thompson reported that between June 25th of 2015 and February 2nd 0f 2016, money was embezzled from his account. Total loss is estimated $8,830. A Wichita man's phone was stolen as he was making ...

9 years ago
HAYS, Kan. (AP) - Residents of northwest Kansas are digging out from a winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow on some areas. National Weather Service meteorologist Jessica Hill says 4 to 15 inches of snow fell across the region before the storm moved out Tuesday afternoon. She says wind gusts of up to ...

9 years ago
Frustrated by a lack of progress in repairing a railroad crossing at the 3300 block of East County Club Road, Saline County Commissioners instructed County Counselor Mike Montoya to notify the Union Pacific Railroad, Scoular Grain, and Exline. A series of complaints last August prompted the County to reduce the speed and place road hazard ...

9 years ago
Court documents show a federal raid of a hunting lodge in the Flint Hills capped a months-long investigation that included the use of undercover hunters, GPS tracking of vehicles and camera surveillance. Federal agents executed the search warrant on Jan. 26 on Eagle Head Outfitters Lodge in Grenola. Court documents filed Friday in U.S. District Court ...

9 years ago
Kansas transportation officials are discouraging travel to western Kansas as a massive winter storm continues causing extreme travel problems. The Kansas Department of Transportation says snow and high winds have forced many highways to close west of Salina. That has resulted in hotels filling up and tractor-trailers being stranded along highways. As of Tuesday afternoon westbound Interstate ...

9 years ago
On a day Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow and predicted an early spring - Central Kansas Extension Agent Jason Graves stopped into the KSAL Morning News with a look getting your garden soil ready. "Soil is a great thing to focus on during the off season," Graves said. "Consider that if you have not done that ...

9 years ago
A long-time Saline County employee plans to run for county clerk. Jamie Doss has announced that she filed by petition to run as a Republican candidate for Saline County Clerk. Doss has been employed at Saline County for 18 years. She was appointed to Saline County Deputy Clerk/Election Officer by Saline County Clerk Don Merriman in ...