9 years ago
A familiar face in Saline County politics plans to run for the Kansas Senate. Long-time Saline County Clerk Don Merriman tells KSAL News that he will run for the 24th Senate District Seat. Republican Tom Arpke currently holds the seat.  Merriman will run as a Democrat. Merriman is a lifelong resident of Salina. He has been the ...

9 years ago
Questions still abound from the war in southeast Asia where over 58,000 American soldiers lost their lives over forty years ago. Dr. Adrian Lewis is coming to the Smoky Hill Museum on Thursday with a presentation that hopes to answer nagging questions that are still rooted in the 1960's about the Vietnam War. Dr. Lewis, a retired ...

9 years ago
A teen already facing charges in connection with the shooting death of a Salina high school student will face another, new charge.  18-year-old Andrew Woodring is one of multiple people facing murder charges in connection with the shooting death of Allie Saum. Woodring was back in court Wednesday morning for a preliminary hearing to face a ...

9 years ago
An audit at O'Reilly Auto Parts, 523 S. Broadway led to the arrest of an employee - who police say was giving an unauthorized discount rate on parts to a business in Junction City. Neal Barta, 50 of Salina was arrested on Tuesday after investigators looked at transactions dating back to January of this year. Police Captain ...

9 years ago
The latest on a case where police discovered human remains at a Kansas barn while investigating a domestic distrubance (all times local): 6:15 p.m. A Kansas man says his daughter told him that a 7-year-old boy she lived with in Wyandotte County had been killed and his body was fed to pigs. Jeff Coon, of central Kansas, told ...

9 years ago
UPDATE: Authorities have found two missing children in a stolen vehicle in suburban Kansas City. Olathe police said in a news release that the children disappeared Tuesday night after the suspect attempted to steal a vehicle from a car dealership. After a witness confronted him, the suspect abandoned the stolen vehicle. Police said he then walked ...

9 years ago
The University of Kansas says a $7.2 million gift will be used to create a new center within the university's School of Business. The university on Tuesday announced that Roger and Julie Davis of Chicago donated $250,000 plus committed $7 million from their estate for a Center for Figure Sense, which will teach students how to ...

9 years ago
Kansas is reporting that it collected $8 million more in taxes than anticipated in November, with both income and sales taxes exceeding expectations. The state Department of Revenue said Tuesday the state collected $430 million in taxes last month instead of the $422 million projected in a new fiscal forecast issued earlier in the month. The ...

9 years ago
The weekend winter weather  proved costly for Saline County. County Road and Bridge Director Gary Nash told County Commissioners Tuesday that the snow, ice and rain that fell over the Thanksgiving weekend meant that some staff worked the weekend, earned 240 hours of overtime, and used 378 tons of salt and 504 gallons of diesel ...

9 years ago
Saint Francis Community Services in Salina is working to help Christmas wishes come true for children in foster care in Kansas. Vickee Spicer, Marketing Director at Saint Francis joined in on the KSAL Morning News on Tuesday with a look at the program that reaches out to children and foster parents with a gift. Spicer says "Christmas ...

9 years ago
An Ambulance headed to Salina Regional Health Center was involved in a two-vehicle crash near the Saline / Ellsworth County line early Tuesday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the ambulance was headed east on K-140 Highway. The ambulance driver, identified as 34-year-old Jeremiah Brown of Great Bend, attempted to pass a Ford F350 feeding truck with a ...