11 years ago
The audience will be seeing things at Salina Community Theatre this weekend, as the play "Harvey" comes to life. Director Gary Demuth says the comedy turns seventy this year, "There's a reason it's a classic, and it's still charming, relevant and every time it's done there's new life," he said. The story is driven by the eccentric ...

11 years ago
With the help from numerous Salina and Kansas departments, the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force carried out six search warrants stemming from a long-term investigation into drug violations by a group of Salina citizens on Monday. Warrants were issued for Jerry Lee Robinson, Jr., 34, 1 Willow Court; Jacob Wayne Thompson, 25, 115 West Wilson; Zacari Dwayne ...

11 years ago
Numerous items were reported stolen yesterday to Salina Police after the owner of a farmstead garage finds her property forcefully entered. Sometime between December 25, 2013 and March 31, 2014 the property on E. Gray Rd. in Northeast Saline County owned by Fern Darnell, 66, of Salina was broken into. The suspect entered into the building ...

11 years ago
Kansas farmers are planning to put in more acres of corn and soybeans this season than they did a year ago. Monday's prospective planting report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service offers the season's first glimpse into the major crops Kansas farmers plan to grow. Kansas farmers told the agency they intend to sow 4.4 million acres ...

11 years ago
An Arizona State University student who fell to her death over the weekend is being remembered in Kansas as an outstanding student at Manhattan High School. The Manhattan Mercury reports police in Tempe, Ariz., are still investigating the death early Sunday of 18-year-old Naomi McClendon. Authorities there said McClendon fell from a 10th-floor balcony at a ...

11 years ago
A new report says better-than-expected collections of Kansas sales and corporate income taxes helped swell state revenue by $12.2 million more than anticipated in March. Monday's report from the state Revenue Department also says tax collections through the first eight months of the fiscal year totaled nearly $4 billion, about $130 million more than expected. Corporate taxes ...

11 years ago
Despite sore feet and windy weather, five parents and teachers have completed a 60-mile walk from Johnson County to the Statehouse to show support for Kansas public schools. The hikers are part of a group called Game On for Kansas Schools, which is supporting higher state spending for public education. They set out Friday from suburban ...

11 years ago
An area school is honored for raising pennies to help in the fight against childhood cancer. Staff from Salina Media Group Radio Stations Y 93.7 and Sunny 102.5 provided a pizza party for Bennington Grade School on Friday. Students at the school helped raise money as part of the station's "Million Penny Challenge". Overall, $9,894 was raised by ...

11 years ago
A Monday morning fire extensively damages a business in downtown Bennington. Ottawa County Rural Fire District #4 Chief Mark Whitesell says that first responders were called at 10:49 to the report of a fire at Westside Ventures. Firefighter / EMT Tony Swetson was in the business, which houses a small grocery store and restaurant, when the fire started. ...

11 years ago
Salina Police were called to Maggie Mae's in the 400 block of Broadway Saturday night in response to a damage to property. The female victim reported a window broken out on her 1996 Chevy 1500 pickup by the male suspect. The confrontation then continued at a home in the 700 block of Morrison when the suspect ...

11 years ago
Salina Police have made an arrest in relation to a shooting from Thursday night. Tiffany Goheen, 28, was arrested and charged with Aggrevated Battery in the shooting case from March 27th. Captain Sean Morton tells KSAL News that 34 year old John Daniels was shot at his residence in the 800 block of Sherman. Staff at Salina ...