1 year ago
A new class of four will be inducted into the Salina Business Hall of Fame. According to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, the 2023 inductees include: Quintin Applequist, founder and President of Roberts Industries Inc. (Historic Category, 1946-1999) Mike Beatty, former CEO of Kennedy and Coe (Contemporary Category, 2000-present) Mark and Julie Miller, founders of ...

1 year ago
A recently retired long-time Salina educator is taking over the top position at the Salina Education Foundation. After a three-month retirement Kate Lindsay is back as the executive director of the foundation. According to USD 305, Lindsay retired from the position as head of theatre at Salina High School South after 35 years. But, she wasn’t ...

1 year ago
A Salina woman was taken into custody after she allegedly entered a home and stole a case of liquor. Police Lieutenant Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that 28-year-old Tyler Bastin tried to run away as officers arrived on scene Saturday afternoon in the 1900 block of Haskett. The victims told police that Bastin was acting peculiar outside ...

1 year ago
A Salina man is facing thirty counts of rape and thirty counts of indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14, after the victim's family contacted authorities. According to Police Lieutenant Jim Feldman, 56-year-old Delwin J. Wohlgemuth was taken into custody on Monday in connection to alleged, criminal contact with a girl who is ...

1 year ago
West Nile Virus cases are being confirmed in horses around Kansas. The Kansas Department of Agriculture say cases were reported in horses in Douglas, Butler, Barber and Pratt counties over the past few weeks. Officials say all of the cases were in unvaccinated horses or horses with an unknown vaccination history.

1 year ago
A Salina man was able to walk away after a plane he was piloting ended up nose to the ground, in a field, after a piece of his door fell off while he was airborne. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 33-year-old Justin Coletti of Salina was piloting a 1941 Piper fixed wing aircraft. Coletti lost a ...

1 year ago
A motorcycle rider was badly injured when he crashed while fleeing police in Junction City late Saturday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 23-year-old Calvin Amacker Jr. was riding a 2006 Yamaha motorcycle actively fleeing from law enforcement. He took a curve too quickly, left the road, and struck a utility junction box. Amacker, who was ...

1 year ago
An artist  whose background ranges from Ukraine, to Israel, to New Jersey, is headed for a residency in Lindsborg. Ukrainian-born Israeli artist Elena Samarsky will be the Artist-in-Residence at the Red Barn Studio Museum in Lindsborg, from September 3rd to September 28th. A reception will be held on Sunday September 24th from 2 to 4 pm ...

1 year ago
A late entrepreneur / businessman/ philanthropist from Salina, along with a retired railroad president, will be honored with induction into the Kansas Business Hall of Fame. According to the organization, retired BNSF Railroad President and CEO Carl Ice, and late Salina entrepreneur and business owner Charlie Walker are its 2023 Contemporary and Historical inductees, respectively. In 2020, ...

1 year ago
The most recent FBI cybercrime annual report shows victims lost $10.3 billion from internet scams in 2022, with phishing being the top-reported crime. A Kansas State University criminologist's new book forges a path for changing these statistics. "Against Cybercrime: Toward a Realist Criminology of Computer Crime," a new book from Routledge by Kevin Steinmetz, Kansas State ...

1 year ago
An intoxicated man was tased by authorities in his front yard after allegedly waving a loaded rifle in the parking lot of a Salina bar. Police Sergeant Kyle Tonniges tells KSAL News that 38-year-old Tharen L. Sparke was taken into custody Thursday night after tension filled moments at Hank's Tavern at 116 S. Broadway. Police say around ...