10 years ago
Salina firefighters were on the scene of a house fire late Friday night. Crews were called to 107 West Prescott just before midnight. First responders to the scene discovered heavy smoke and flames coming from the home. The occupants, and their pets, were able to escape. Crews had the fire under control at 12:30. The home is uninhabitable. The ...

10 years ago
Kansas plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve its gay-marriage ban while a legal challenge from two lesbian couples is considered by lower federal courts. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Friday that he'll act before a federal judge's injunction barring the state from enforcing its ban takes effect Tuesday. Schmidt announced his plans after the ...

10 years ago
Federal data shows that political and special interest groups spent nearly $17 million in Kansas starting in September in the nationally watched race between Republican Sen. Pat Roberts and his independent challenger. Online records of the Federal Election Commission show the three-term GOP incumbent benefited more from the outside spending than independent candidate Greg Orman. Roberts ...

10 years ago
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for gay marriages to start in Kansas next week. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Friday denied a request from the state to block an order from a lower-court judge preventing Kansas from enforcing its ban on gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree put ...

10 years ago
Jefferson County officials say a 58-year-old man died after apparently falling into a grain bin. Sheriff Jeffrey Herrig says emergency crews were called Thursday afternoon to the farm of Mike Miller about eight miles west of Valley Falls. WIBW reports that Herrig says Miller fell into a grain bin and died before crews could rescue him. Details of ...

10 years ago
Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to stay a judge's preliminary injunction against the state enforcing its gay-marriage ban. The state attorney general's office filed the request Thursday with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, a day after appealing a ruling from U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree. The judge ruled in lawsuit filed ...

10 years ago
Authorities say an 83-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in northeast Kansas after he got out of the vehicle to check on an injured deer. Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn says Joe Knitter, of Clay Center, died in the accident early Friday on U.S. 24. Dunn says Knitter's wife hit a deer. He got out ...

10 years ago
Burglars break into a Salina business. Police say someone pulled back sheet metal panels on an exterior wall to gain entrance into Midwest Gutter, 248 N. College, sometime between 7pm Wednesday evening and Thursday morning at 7am. Thieves took a cordless drill, five tape measures and 300 blank business checks from inside. Total loss and ...

10 years ago
A potpourri investigation that began in August ends with the arrest of a Saline County man. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that chemicals in a potpourri mix - found at a home near Assaria this summer tested positive for banned substances by a KBI lab. Deputies arrested 24-year-old David E. Forsberg on Thursday for possession of ...

10 years ago
One person is hurt in a crash near Hays early Friday morning involving a Salina woman. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2006 Chevy Cobalt driven by 22-year-old Hope Yeager of Ellinwood was headed west on Interstate 70. Yeager hit a deer carcass in the road, and sideswiped a semi. The semi driver, 48-year-old ...

10 years ago
Between 12:30 PM on October 4, 2014 and 7:30 AM on October 6, 2014 forced entry was used to commit a burglary at Roberts Welding, 252 S. Broadway. A white 2001 Dodge Ram 3500 Flatbed Truck was taken. Attached to the bed of the pickup were two white toolboxes, a Miller Welder, cutting ...