10 years ago
During the Thanksgiving Traffic Enforcement campaign just completed, The Saline County Sheriff’s Office conducted overtime saturation patrols to primarily enforce Kansas’ impaired driving and occupant restraint laws. Over this period, November 24-30, officers issued 45 safety belt citations, gave 13 warnings, 8 other citations and 6 arrests. All told, officers made 55 enforcement stops during ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was arrested early Friday morning outside his burning home. Firefighters were called to the report of a house on fire at 1904 S. Valley View Drive at around 7:00 in the morning. The east side of the home was fully engulfed when the first crews arrived Crews spent several hours trying to get the ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was arrested after police caught him leaving the scene of a crime. A resident called Police at around 2:30 in the morning on Friday after hearing someone in his garage at 685 South 3rd Street. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tell KSAL News that the first officers on the scene observed two people exiting ...

10 years ago
A Salina woman was arrested following an altercation that involved a gun. Salina Police say that 27-year-old Gloria Carruthers went to an apartment at 2363 Chapel Ridge at 1:00 Sunday afternoon to confront another woman. Allegedly, she pounded on the door. After the woman eventually opened the door, a confrontation ensued. During the incident Carruthers allegedly retrieved ...

10 years ago
Wichita police are searching for a suspect after a teenager reported being attacked and robbed of his Kansas State hat. The Wichita Eagle reports the 19-year-old victim tells police the man approached him during the weekend while the teen was walking and demanded his knit cap and shoes. He says the man struck him in the ...

10 years ago
A prosecutor has decided that no criminal charges are warranted in the death of a Missouri woman at a Kansas jail. Fifty-eight-year-old Brenda Sewell of Kansas City, Missouri, was jailed in Sherman County when she died Jan. 22. She and her sister had been arrested two days earlier for possessing a small amount of marijuana. Relatives say ...

10 years ago
The fall harvest of crops in Kansas is mostly in the bin now. Winter wheat planting is done. And calving is still months away. Kansas farmers and ranchers are taking advantage of the seasonal lull this week to gather together to socialize, hash out farm policy aims and gather information at three major agricultural conventions. On Monday, ...

10 years ago
A 65-foot artificial tree that is touted as the state's tallest holiday tree is lighting downtown Manhattan. The Manhattan Mercury reports that the nearly $100,000 artificial tree grew by 15 feet this year for the second Festival of Lights. It features lights that change according to the rhythm of holiday music that can be heard over ...

10 years ago
A Salina pilot was killed and three other people were hurt when a small plane crashed in Missouri early Sunday morning. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says that the pilot, Charles Sojka of Salina, was killed in the crash around 9 a.m. Sunday near the airport in Boonville, Missouri. Passengers Brenda Schewe of Salina, Kathryn Taylor ...

10 years ago
A cold front bringing with it arctic air Sunday morning put an abrupt end to a couple of days of record setting warmth. According to the National Weather Service, gusty north winds of 15 to 25 mph are drawing much colder air into the region. By mid-late afternoon, most of Kansas will have temperatures in ...

10 years ago
A special guest is basing at the Salina Regional Airport again this year. Did you know that Capt. Kringle has based out of the Salina Regional Airport every December for the past five years to make his final preparations for his ever-famous 'round the world flight? While he is in town, K-State Salina and the ...