10 years ago
A scammer has targeted a Salina convenience store. Police say that Casey's at 500 North Ohio is victim to a scam. A person claiming to be tech support called an employee at the store, there and insisted that their system was down. To fix the problem, the employee was told that a money transfer was needed ...

10 years ago
An Arkansas man is in jail after a routine traffic stop led to a find of a quarter pound of marijuana from Colorado. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, Ponch Saeyiem of Jonesboro, Arkansas was stopped at milepost 261 on I-70 for a unlawful lane change. A drug dog picked up a positive read on ...

10 years ago
An Ellsworth man landed himself in Saline County Jail after allegedly breaking into an auto body shop in Salina. Police say that Albert Whitaker, 35, was found inside a vehicle, inside Calvin's Customs at 425 North Santa Fe.Whitaker is a convicted felon, and possessed a rifle which was recovered in the vehicle. Whitaker could face charges that ...

10 years ago
A Salina woman was arrested after allegedly being caught in the act trying to break into a home. Police say  that Cheryl Pittenger, 37, was attempting to break into a home on the 400 block of Phillips with a credit card when the owner pulled up and saw her. She attempted to run, but law ...

10 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence school board members have opposed a shooting range and gun shop proposed for a location across the street from the district's college and career center. School board member Shannon Kimball says it's not appropriate for a business that close to a school to sell deadly weapons. The board called the proposal ...

10 years ago
Racial tensions are growing at the University of Kansas with a call for three top Student Senate leaders to resign and a recent graduate initiating a hunger strike. The Senate's Student Executive Committee is demanding that Student Body President Jessie Pringle, Student Body Vice President Zach George and Chief of Staff Adam Moon step down by ...

10 years ago
Two Kansas lawmakers who voted against school funding changes have been removed from a Kansas House committee that oversees education. Reps. Diana Dierks, of Salina, and John Ewy, of Jetmore, were notified this week that they had been taken off the committee. Their replacements voted in favor of the bill that replaced the state's per-pupil formula ...

10 years ago
Kansas isn't likely to see executions soon or a shift in how its Supreme Court handles capital murder cases after it recently upheld a death sentence for the first time under the state's 1994 capital punishment law. Several prosecutors are encouraged by the court's decision in the case of John E. Robinson Sr. He was sentenced ...

10 years ago
Firefighters were busy in rural areas of Saline and Dickinson Counties early Sunday morning, battling a series of grass fires that may have been intentionally set. Saline County Sheriff Deputy Todd Walsh told KSAL News at the scene of one of the fires that about a half-dozen fires were reported between 4:00 and 5:00 Sunday morning ...

10 years ago
Catholic diocese leaders from Wichita are told it'll take a miracle to get a Kansas native declared a saint after the Vatican chose not to declare the Korean War hero a martyr. The Wichita Eagle reports that Wichita Bishop Carl Kemme met with Cardinal Angelo Amato in Vatican City recently to make the case for Father ...

10 years ago
A group of minority former faculty members at the University of Missouri says racial problems must be addressed. The MU Former Faculty of Color released a statement late Friday supporting students protesting what they say is a racist environment at the predominantly white Columbia campus. The statement is signed by nine former employees who describe racist incidents ...