11 years ago
A burn ban for Saline County that has been in effect since March is extended for another seven days. According to Saline County Emergency Management Director Hannah Stambaugh, dry and windy weather conditions continue to create an extreme fire hazard in the grass and crop lands of Saline County. Once started, fires are difficult to ...

11 years ago
A southeast Kansas woman died after she was hit by a car in a bank's drive-thru lane. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 83-year-old Gloria Pefley died Monday at the Bank of Commerce in Chanute. The patrol says Pefley got out of a car she was riding in and walked in front of the vehicle. The vehicle hit ...

11 years ago
Crews continue to replace the lighting in downtown Salina. Tuesday morning, employees with Precision Electric Contractors of Salina were lowering light towers in a parking lot at 7th Street and Iron, then swapping old halogen bulbs with new LED lamps. Robert Lepping with Precision tells KSAL News that the digger truck holds the pole in place while ...

11 years ago
A Kansas sports promoter is looking for someone interested in buying the ball that was used in the first Olympic gold medal basketball game. The undersized, deflated ball that's stitched together like a volleyball has been in Canada since a player's wife slipped it under a blanket after the 1936 championship game in Berlin. The U.S. team ...

11 years ago
A Salina woman is arrested after pulling a knife on a bondsman. Police were called to Casey's General Store at 215 W. Crawford Tuesday morning. Melinda Seward, a bondsman from Concordia was attempting to arrest Jonathan Mangold, 26, of Council Grove for not fulfilling his bond when Kimberlie Damron, 22, allegedly approached her with a box ...

11 years ago
Police say a car found with a decomposing body inside belonged to a man missing since February. The car was found Monday morning at a Maize apartment complex when police were called to investigate a bad smell. McPherson police said Monday the car belonged to 54-year-old Adam Sabri, who co-owns a sports bar in McPherson. The body ...

11 years ago
Winter wheat is deteriorating in Kansas amid dry, windy weather conditions and little rain. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that almost half of the state's crop is faring poorly. What little rain Kansas got last week was limited to eastern and northern counties. Topsoil moisture is short or very short in 70 percent of Kansas. The ...

11 years ago
The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of a Kansas Supreme Court justice to the federal appeals court that handles cases from six western and Plains states. Kansas Senator Jerry Moran's office says the chamber voted 90-3 Monday to confirm Nancy Moritz to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. President Barack Obama nominated Moritz ...

11 years ago
City Commissioners pave the way for a new grocery store to be open in North Salina by the end of the year. Commissioners Monday approved up to $250,000 in sales tax reimbursement to help finance the project. A Save-A-Lot neighborhood grocery store will be built in the vacant building that formerly housed a Dillons grocery store ...

11 years ago
As of Tuesday morning Salina Police are waiting for tear gas used to lure two suspects out of a standoff yesterday afternoon to clear before they can properly search the home. No new charges have been made as the investigation is ongoing until the house has been searched. Two people whom were inside the home before ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office continues their search of a possible known vehicle thief. Sheriffs Captain Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the suspect who stole three vehicles on Friday is a local man in his 30s and could possibly be armed and dangerous. At 7pm on May 2nd the suspect first stole a 2011 silver Suburu ...