10 years ago
Event organizers hope the sale of five customized guitars at a fundraiser will raise $50,000 to support the construction of the Reno County Veterans' Memorial. The Hutchinson News reports the instruments will be covered in patriotic artwork and are to be auctioned off in November. Each of the four guitars will have artwork that will recognize ...

10 years ago
Saline County Commissioners Tuesday unanimously agreed to let voters decide whether or not to expand the the commission from a three person board to a five person board. A successful petition campaign by a group called Saline County Citizens For Responsible Government prompted the action. Back on July 8th, members of the group turned in ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is facing attempted 1st degree murder charges. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 34-year-old Raymond Isom was arrested on Monday after officers found him hiding inside an enclosed porch at 713 N. 4th after he allegedly shot a 20-year-old man twice in the stomach. Officers from the Kansas Highway Patrol, Saline County ...

10 years ago
State agriculture officials say new leadership, more money and increased scrutiny has improved the accuracy of heavy capacity scales. The scales are used to weigh millions of dollars of goods every year in Kansas, including truckloads of scrap metal, recyclables and agricultural products. In early 2013, state inspectors approved just 26 percent of the large scales they ...

10 years ago
A judge upheld a $2.6 million judgment awarded to a Kansas tourist whose skull was fractured when she was run over by a truck driven by a lifeguard. Volusia County had appealed part of the judgment handed down by a jury in favor of Erin Joynt, who was injured while lying on the beach in 2011. ...

10 years ago
Dr. Trent Davis will soon have a seat on the Salina City Commission. During Monday's meeting, commissioners decided to appoint Davis to fill the spot of commissioner Barb Shirley, who resigned last week.  Shirley had agreed to stay on until a new commissioner was selected. Davis was selected from a group of five people who expressed interest in ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Department of Labor says the state's unemployment rate and the number of private-sector jobs both edged higher in July. The agency reported Monday that seasonally adjusted unemployment rose to 4.9 percent in July from 4.8 percent in June. The July figure was down from 5.6 percent in the same month last year. The report also ...

10 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts says drug cartels are enticing Central American immigrants to come to the United States to work for their operations here. The Kansas Republican made the claim Monday at the annual convention of the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association. He says the cartels spread false information that President Barack Obama's 2-year-old directive granting ...

10 years ago
One person was shot, and another arrested, during an incident during the noon hour on Monday. Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that the incident happened at 821 N. Second Steeet. Police responded at 12:32 in the afternoon to the report of a shooting. They found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound. He was ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are seeking a known suspect who allegedly hit a 40-year-old man in the face with his fists after an argument turned violent just after midnight on Monday. The victim was transported from his home in the 700 block of North 3rd to the ER for facial bone fractures and bruised ribs. Salina Police arrest ...

10 years ago
A memorial fund has been set up for the children of a Reno County jail deputy and his wife who died in a motorcycle crash during the weekend. Reno County Jail Deputy Shawn Schellenger and his wife, Danielle, died of injuries they suffered Saturday in Great Bend. The sheriff's office says they were on a motorcycle ...