10 years ago
A bogus $20 bill is discovered in a restaurant's bank deposit. Salina Police are investigating after another counterfeit bill was found, this time by employees at Bennington State Bank - in a deposit made by Jim's Chicken, 649 S. Broadway on Wednesday. Police are also investigating a couple of counterfeit $100 bills found in other bank deposits ...

10 years ago
A woman is found months after cutting an acquaintance with a knife. Salina Police arrested 20-year-old Ashley Morris on a warrant Wednesday for allegedly slashing a 19-year-old man with a utility knife during an argument in a home on September 15th. Police say the hospital used 21 staples to close the victim's chest wound. Authorities learned of the ...

10 years ago
Three tamarin monkeys from the Hutchinson Zoo in Kansas have died from a virus. The animals died late last month from the highly fatal virus likely contracted by eating an infected mouse or mouse urine. Two of the cotton-topped tamarins native to Colombia were born at the zoo in 2001. The other was born there in 2008. Zoo ...

10 years ago
A lawsuit against an Oklahoma-based company claiming it and other natural gas companies gouged two Kansas plaintiffs is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. The Topeka School District and Learjet are part of a lawsuit with more than a dozen other businesses and schools that say ONEOK and other natural gas companies illegally fixed prices between ...

10 years ago
Kansas is part of a 17-state coalition suing over President Barack Obama's recently announced executive actions on immigration. The states argue in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the move "tramples" key portions of the U.S. Constitution. Many top Republicans have denounced Obama's unilateral move, which was designed to spare as many as 5 million people living ...

10 years ago
Kansas has lost another legal skirmish in its efforts to salvage the state's battered ban on gay marriage. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected on Tuesday the state's request to convene the full court to hear its appeal of U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree's order that the state allow same-sex marriages. The latest procedural development from ...

10 years ago
A state economist says Kansas has regained the private-sector jobs it lost during the most recent recession but has seen a shift away from employment in manufacturing. Kansas Department of Labor senior economist Tyler Tenbrink also said Wednesday that wages haven't rebounded fully from the recession when adjusted for inflation. Tenbrink reported on employment and wages during ...

10 years ago
For the second time Salina has been chosen as the host city for a statewide free dental clinic. The Kansas Dental Charitable Foundation will host the fourteenth Kansas Mission of Mercy free dental clinic in early 2015 at the Salina Bicentennial Center. There are no appointments or reservations and patients will be seen on a first ...

10 years ago
A new four-legged officer is on the job for the Salina Police Department. According to the agency, Helio, a German Shepard born in Germany on Oct 2, 2012, is now part of the police force. Helio was trained by David Kiewel at K-9 Working Dogs International in Longford, Kansas. Helio is replacing Dax, who passed away ...

10 years ago
A pioneer prairie Santa is coming to Salina, to bring a touch of Christmas past to the Smoky Hill Museum. Nona Miller, Education Coordinator with the Museum joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a look at the festive event scheduled for Saturday, December 6th from 1pm to 3pm. "The Pioneer Santa does not look like ...

10 years ago
Racquetball equipment is stolen from a truck. Police report that sports equipment was taken from a Dodge Ram pickup that was parked in lot at Salina Regional Health Center on Tuesday. The owner told officers that racquetballs, elbow and knee pads, goggles, shoes and a sports bag were taken from the truck sometime Tuesday between 6:30am and ...