9 years ago
Why does this vehicle keep appearing in a cemetery? Salina Police say that a 1992 Sierra pickup keeps appearing in the Bennington cemetery. The truck was reported stolen in Salina the 16th of December. For the second time within the last month it has been found in a what most people could say, is an odd place ...

9 years ago
A Salina teen was sent to a juvenile detention center after a Department of Children and Families' investigation. A fifteen-year-old boy is accused of inappropriately touching a fourteen-year-old boy in the alleged suspect's home in south Salina. The two are acquainted. Copyright © Alpha Media, 2015.  All Rights Reserved. No part of this story or website may ...

9 years ago
Multiple residential thefts are under investigation in Salina. A theft on the 600 block of Bishop was reported  on December 29. A race car trailer was broken into by prying open the lock and $6,000 in power tools and racing equipment were stolen. Another theft was reported yesterday on the 100 block of West Crawford. Jewelry including a ...

9 years ago
A man arrested in a series of thefts that led to a nearly four-hour lockdown of the Kansas State University campus has reached a deal with prosecutors. 20-year-old Johnathon Ryan Elliott has pleaded no contest to one charge of aggravated robbery. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop five other counts. Prosecutors also agreed to seek the standard ...

9 years ago
Fourteen dogs have died in a northeast Kansas house fire that their owner narrowly escaped. Kevin Matthews awoke Tuesday morning to smoke filling his room. He broke through a bedroom window of his home near the Douglas County town of Baldwin and jumped out. Matthews says he then flagged down a driver, who helped him call 911. ...

9 years ago
There was no winner of the $500 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday night, so the estimated prize for this weekend's drawing is the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history. Texas Lottery spokeswoman Kelly Cripe says Saturday's drawing will be worth about $675 million. Wednesday's numbers were 2, 11, 47, 62 and 63, and the Powerball ...

9 years ago
Sunday’s editorial contained “dream headlines” for 2016. Twentieth on the list: “Troublemakers stop showing up at commission meetings, admit they were only doing it for attention.” That provoked a hard swallow. I may resemble that remark. And I won’t apologize. As I sit down at the Saline County Commission meeting, I say hello to fellow troublemakers. We ...

9 years ago
A Kansas education official says using a private vendor for state tests would boost costs. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the issue came up after an interim legislative panel released a draft of its public school recommendations. Among those was a recommendation that the state seek a test provider without ties to federal or state government ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a Manhattan man has died after a jailhouse suicide attempt. The Manhattan Mercury reports that the man died Monday morning after he was removed from life support. Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf said in a news release that the man had attempted suicide in his cell Dec. 31 at the county's detention center. The Kansas ...

9 years ago
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday night's Powerball was at $450 million to begin the day on Wednesday. By mid-day, that number had soared to $500 million. Sally Lunsford from the Kansas Lottery tells KSAL News that the estimate is based on sales and activity across the country. No one has won  Powerball's biggest prize since Nov. 4. ...

9 years ago
Local physicians will be on hand Thursday at the Stiefel Theatre for the screening of a documentary film about the HPV epidemic, and to talk to parents about options to prevent the disease in their preteen children. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common virus that nearly ...