11 years ago
Christopher Burns spends most of his working day as an area manger for Jimmy John's Restaurant - but give him 6-seconds and he'll make you laugh as Stormtrooper Sam. The movie maker who posts his work on Vine Video caught the attention of Salina Police yesterday after a customer at a downtown business got a little ...

11 years ago
Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan says June's tax collections missed estimates by $28 million, pushing the shortfall for the fiscal year that ended Monday to nearly $338 million. Preliminary figures released Monday showed Kansas collecting nearly $5.5 billion in taxes and fees in fiscal 2014. Forecasters whose projections help the state build its annual budget had ...

11 years ago
Widespread rainfall over several days in the past week has slowed the Kansas winter wheat harvest, and hail has damaged the crops in the northwest part of the state. The National Agricultural Statistics Serve reported Monday that 40 percent of the wheat crop has now been cut, well behind the average of 66 percent in late ...

11 years ago
The July 4th holiday is this week, and the Kansas Highway Patrol has some important enforcement initiatives that motorists should be aware of. Beginning July 1, and lasting through July 10, the Patrol will be conducting a texting enforcement initiative. Troopers will be out looking for drivers who are violating Kansas’ texting law, and will ...

11 years ago
Police continue to investigate after someone fired a high-powered rifle in the 500 block of West Beloit last Thursday night. Captain Mike Sweeney says police confirmed at least 5 rounds were fired - one narrowly missed a woman who was asleep in her bed. Captain Sweeney tells KSAL News one of the rounds went through a mattress ...

11 years ago
A rural Saline County man returns home to find tires and rims missing from his garage. According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, Adam Branstetter returned to his house in the 5000 block of N. Leisure Road to discover someone had entered the locked garage and removed four Typhoon brand silver, aluminum rims plus a pair of tires. ...

11 years ago
Police are searching for two suspects involved in a residential burglary that occurred on Saturday morning. Willis Brull, 86, of 803 E. Minneapolis reported that two Hispanic males knocked on his door around 9 am asking to be shown where his property line ends. Brull and his wife walked with the males out back to discuss the ...

11 years ago
A concerned citizen's call to police leads to an arrest in a string of vehicle burglaries. Officers were sent to the area of Santa Fe and Wilson Friday morning around 5:30am after a person told police they saw a man was acting suspicious and going through cars. Police arrested 20-year-old Tyler Base in the 2000 block of ...

11 years ago
A new barbecue restaurant is planning to build a Salina location. According to Salina Area Chamber of Commerce President Dennis Lauver, Rib Crib plans to expand into Salina. Rib Crib is a restaurant specializing in barbecue and smoked meats. All locations share a common theme of rustic lodge-like surroundings. The first Rib Crib opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma in ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Turnpike Authority is considering building a scenic outlook along Interstate 35 to allow travelers to stop and appreciate the Flint Hills. The turnpike authority is considering improvements to on and off ramps south of Emporia that currently serve cattle owners, who truck in their cattle to graze in the spring and then retrieve ...

11 years ago
Former Sen. Bob Dole plans to visit his Kansas hometown Wednesday to dedicate a new mobile unit for use by the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center. A spokeswoman says the dedication will take place at 10:30 a.m. at Russell's VFW Post 6240, located on Bob Dole Drive. The Dole Medical Center in Wichita serves 59 Kansas ...