9 years ago
A massive 50-year-old landmark residence hall at the University of Kansas has been imploded as planned. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that crews detonated about 750 pounds of explosives spaced through McCollum Hall on Wednesday. The implosion of the 10-story, 220,000-square-foot building also included keeping onlookers at least 600 feet from the site. The university arranged the demolition ...

9 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office has a new prevention officer, and a new vehicle. Deputy Rob Little, who has been with the agency for five years, is the new prevention officer. Little tells KSAL News that among other things, he will teach drug abuse resistance education, or DARE, to students at Salina Sacred Heart, St. John's Military ...

9 years ago
A Salina woman is accused of stealing a gun, and a small amount of cash from her father. Salina Police Captain Chris Trocheck says that on Sunday, between 8:00 and 10:00 in the morning, a Ruger .380 pistol and $50 in cash were stolen from an East Salina home. 60-year-old Douglas Bethe discovered an open dresser ...

9 years ago
The 28th Annual Turkey Trot is coming up Thanksgiving morning at Bill Burke Park. "We have people coming out just to hang out with their families," said Hope Varela - Health and Wellness Director at Salina's YMCA. "Last year we had a family of probably twenty or thirty, and it was their family reunion and they brought ...

9 years ago
The Halstead Police Department is under investigation by state officials. Harvey County Attorney David Yoder made the request for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to examine the police department. Officials have released few details about the investigation. Yoder says that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation is interviewing witnesses and looking through documents at the police station, but ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The University of Kansas has created a task force on diversity efforts. Incoming interim provost Sara Rosen announced the new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Group on Tuesday. Sheahon Zenger, the university's director of athletics, and Clarence Lang, chairman of the African and African-American Studies department, will co-chair the task force. The group's focus ...

9 years ago
Mother Nature could pose a challenge for those going over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house on Thanksgiving Day. Traveling to a Thanksgiving destination early in the day Thursday shouldn't be a problem. Coming back home, later in the day, could prove difficult though. According to the National Weather Service, a wide variety ...

9 years ago
Kansas is urging the Kansas Supreme Court to let the governor and lawmakers decide whether schools are getting enough money. Lawyers for the state argued in a brief Tuesday that if the court wants to make that decision, then the evidence students are excelling should convince it that the funding is sufficient. Attorney General Derek Schmidt contends ...

9 years ago
Kansas City Power & Light is appealing a September ruling by Kansas regulators reducing the percentage of annual profit the utility is allowed to return to its stockholders. KCP&L filed a rate request seeking to boost annual revenues by $67 million in Kansas, or $11.67 a month for average residential customers. The request proposed increasing allowed ...

9 years ago
Hundreds of Franklin County residents are expected to receive jury summonses for the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing four people. Kyle Trevor Flack's trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 1, 2016. He's charged with capital murder in the 2013 slayings of 21-year-old Kaylie Smith Bailey and her daughter, 18-month-old Lana-Leigh Bailey. He's ...

9 years ago
A couple of inmates at the Saline County Jail are facing disciplinary action after a couple of containers of "hooch", or homemade alcohol, were discovered. Saline County Sheriff Captain Brent Melander tells KSAL news that two containers of a fermenting concoction were discovered in a storage room in the kitchen area. One was in a coffee ...