11 years ago
Registered voters who live in the USD 305 School District began receiving ballots this week for the first-ever mail in election in Salina. About 28,000 ballots were delivered to the Salina Post Office last Friday. They began to go out in the mail on Monday, and started arriving in mailboxes on Tuesday. The ballots, which contain ...

11 years ago
A one-of-a-kind art collection was unveiled in Salina Thursday evening. Family, friends, and art lovers joined Salinans Ken and June Jennision to celebrate the debut of the "Jennison Collection". The Jennison's have been collecting the Smoky Hill River Festival signature "Festival Print" since the artwork first became available in 1982. A limited number of the orignal prints ...

11 years ago
A hushed courtroom heard a co-defendant testify how he beat, strangled, held her face in mud, and finally held a Salina woman's face under water to kill her. A murder trial for Dane DeWeese, one of three people accused in the Spring 2013 disappearance and murder of 27-year-old Kristin Tyler continued Thursday in Saline County District ...

11 years ago
USD 305 Superintendent Bill Hall is hoping the public will mark their ballot and mail it in before the April 8th deadline. Hall, stopped into the KSAL Morning News Thursday with a look at some of the issues and numbers associated with the upcoming bond issue, "If it gets close to the deadline like the 4th ...

11 years ago
A former Kansas Bureau of Investigation deputy director has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child. Fifty-seven-year-old Kyle Smith appeared Thursday before Shawnee County District Judge Cheryl Kingfisher to enter the guilty plea. Prosecutors dropped a charge accusing him of trying to destroy evidence. The exploitation charge alleged that Smith possessed a photo of a child ...

11 years ago
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper who was injured in an accident on the Kansas Turnpike is improving at a Wichita hospital. Wesley Medical Center officials say Trooper Da'von Brame was upgraded to fair condition Wednesday. Brame was injured Tuesday evening while sitting in his vehicle after he pulled over a semi-trailer for an inspection in east Wichita. ...

11 years ago
The dean of Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine has announced plans to step down by the middle of next year. The university said in a news release that Ralph C. Richardson will become a faculty member after leaving the job he has held since 1998. Richardson received his degree in veterinary medicine from Kansas State ...

11 years ago
A commission appointed to decide how much a Nebraska gas company must pay for taking property from Kansas land owners will hold its first compensation hearing next month. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot issued a formal notice Wednesday that the hearing will take place April 15 in the federal courthouse in Wichita. The public hearing is the ...

11 years ago
Kansas voters will decide in November whether to legalize charitable raffles. The state House adopted a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution on a 102-19 vote Wednesday. The Senate adopted the same proposal last week. If a simple majority of voters in the Nov. 4 general election approve, the constitution will be changed. Such an amendment is necessary ...

11 years ago
Federal court records show settlements ranged from about $1.8 million to $55,000 for four juveniles who claimed a Kansas military school encouraged abuse by giving higher-ranking cadets authority to discipline younger cadets. Eleven former cadets filed a lawsuit in 2012 alleging that higher-ranking students abused younger students at St. John's Military School in Salina. The ...

11 years ago
Salina Police issued multiple citations last Friday night for seat belt violations. Lt. Russ Lamer tells KSAL News that officers focused on occupants who were not buckled up in vehicles in a city wide sweep. Police say they made 19 vehicle stops and issued 15 citations to adults plus 2 for children who were not restrained. Lt. Lamer ...