11 years ago
Governor Sam Brownback says a federal lawsuit by environmental groups over the lesser prairie chicken is an attempt to shut down agriculture and energy production in western Kansas. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington argues the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not doing enough to protect the bird. The agency in March listed ...

11 years ago
A Salina man and an Abilene woman are sentenced for their roles in the 2013 disappearance and murder of a Salina woman. On Tuesday afternoon in Saline County District Court Judge Jared Johnson sentenced 26-year-old Joel Heil to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. He sentenced 21-year-old Megan Wells to 8 ...

11 years ago
Recent rains and a short standing winter wheat crop has made for new challenges across much of Kansas. Aaron Harries with Kansas Wheat in Manhattan joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a look at the crop that has producers hoping to push go on their combines, "It's down to a race now between the ...

11 years ago
Four people on the June list of Salina's Most Wanted have been caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line back on June 7th. Since then, four have been arrested. Those arrested include Jordan Allen, Marcell Benoit, Mindy Burr, and Trapper Giersch.. They were wanted for crimes that include felony drug crimes, aggravated battery, domestic violence ...

11 years ago
Salina Police will be out in force Friday evening – looking for seat belt violations. Lt. Russ Lamer tells KSAL News that four officers and one spotter will be working around the city, from 9pm Friday to 1am Saturday, looking for occupants who are not buckled up. Lt. Lamer says that citations for unrestrained adults are $10 ...

11 years ago
Despite a fire that damaged its longtime home and the loss of a major sponsor, a central Kansas camp is still providing hope for children with cancer. The aptly-named Camp Hope is offering its services again this week on the Barton Community College campus in Great Bend. The camp was forced to move from Camp Aldrich in ...

11 years ago
A group that has worked for three years to restore the Joyland amusement park in Wichita is calling it quits. Kira Johnson, who led the three-year effort, says a lack of time and money led the group to disband. The nearly $10,500 raised by the group will be reimbursed and then donated to other groups. Joyland operated ...

11 years ago
Garden City authorities say a Kansas inmate who was mistakenly released in Missouri has been recaptured in Garden City. Police say 36-year-old Sean McKenzie was arrested Thursday when officers responded to a report of a child in need of care. McKenzie allegedly was living at a home under several aliases. He was booked into Finney County ...

11 years ago
A northeast Kansas woman has been sentenced to 20 months behind bars for her role in last year's killing of a 68-year-old Manhattan man she described as a longtime friend. 49-year-old Christina Love will also spend 18 months on probation under the sentence she received in Riley County District Court. Love, her son and a third man ...

11 years ago
Nebraska authorities say dual tornadoes that touched down in a small town about 100 miles northwest of Omaha killed a 5-year-old and injured at least 19 people, some of them critically. It happened in Pilger, a community of about 350. The National Weather Service says the twin twisters touched down within roughly a mile of each other. A ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating several non-related scam cases. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, a 69-year-old Salina man contacted police on Friday and told them how he nearly lost $5,000 to a scam that came through his Facebook account. An entity called "World Hearing" told him he had won a big prize and could claim it if ...