10 years ago
A new Visual Arts Coordinator is on the job with Salina Arts and Humanities. According to the agency, Grace Peterson has been selected as the agency’s new Visual Arts Coordinator. Anative of Parker, Colorado, Peterson holds a BFA with an emphasis in sculpture from the University of Kansas. She also has a degree in applied arts ...

10 years ago
A teen from Assaria will be sentenced in September for the 2010 shooting death of his young stepbrother. Ryan Velez, now 18-years-old, was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for second-degree murder. Instead, he will be sentenced in September. Velez, who was 14-years-old at the time, shot and killed 9-year-old Kaden Harper in June of 2010 at ...

10 years ago
"Like a hurricane." That has been the motto of the Joint Reception Staging Onward Integration team at the Kansas National Guard’s Vigilant Guard 2014, Aug. 4-7, 2014, emergency preparedness exercise, according to Army Maj. Courtney Prewitt. Vigilant Guard is a multi-state emergency response exercise hosted by the Kansas National Guard at Crisis City, Salina, ...

10 years ago
Counterfeit money continues to surface in Salina. For nearly a month, counterfeit bills have been used to make purchases at multiple businesses around Salina. The latest bills to surface include a counterfeit $10 and a counterfeit $20 in deposits on Tuesday and Wednesday at Sunflower Bank on South 9th Street, and at the Bank of Tescott ...

10 years ago
The King and Queen of the Tri Rivers Fair have been crowned. 16-year-old Hannah Henry from the Friendly Valley 4-H Club is the 2014 Tri Rivers Fair Queen, and 18-year-old Jonathan Peuchen, also from the Friendly Valley 4-H Club, is the 2014 Tri Rivers Fair King. Henry is a student at Southeast of Saline High School. ...

10 years ago
A second leading bond-rating agency has downgraded its credit rating for Kansas and cited what it calls the state's "structurally unbalanced budget" following massive personal income tax cuts. Standard & Poor's said Wednesday that it is dropping its rating for Kansas to AA from AA+. The agency also dropped its rating for bonds backed by state ...

10 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is rallying Republican activists to promote what he says is the Kansas economic comeback after the state's primary election showed significant dissent within the GOP. Brownback and other prominent Republicans had a short rally Wednesday morning at the state GOP's headquarters in Topeka. He urged Republicans to get out and spread a ...

10 years ago
Conservative groups failed Tuesday in a coordinated effort to unseat several moderate House Republicans. The Kansas Chamber and Americans for Prosperity-Kansas funded direct-mail campaigns against Reps. Barbara Bollier, Mission Hills, Stephanie Clayton, Overland Park, Blaine Finch, Ottawa, Russ Jennings, Lakin, Tom Sloan, Lawrence, and Kent Thompson, Iola. The fliers charged that the moderates had helped advance President ...

10 years ago
A tip from the Wichita Police Department's Exploited and Missing Child Unit leads to the arrest of a Salina man. Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that back on March 28th the department received a tip that 45-year-old Richard Hansen was downloading child pornography. On May 20th, during a search of Hansen's home ...

10 years ago
A Salina woman is arrested for allegedly falsely reporting a sex crime at a convenience store that as been the target of recent protests. Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 51-year-old Debra Grant was arrested on Tuesday. Back on July 29th Grant reported that she was inside the Pump Mart convenience store at 1118 ...

10 years ago
It's another sure sign that summer vaction is nearly over, and that students will be returning to school. Salina USD 305 teachers returned to the classroom Wednesday. The district kicked of the 2014 – 2015 school year with its annual all-school assembly, the only time during the year when the entire district gathers in one location. ...