11 years ago
A 24-year-old woman is dead after being shot while walking in a south Wichita neighborhood with her husband, a documented gang member. The Wichita Eagle  reports the couple were walking at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday when several shots were fired toward them. Police Lt. Todd Ojile says both the man and the woman began running, but one ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating after a stolen car hits a fire hydrant and road signs. Officers were called to the 1400 block of Marymount Road early Tuesday morning after an unidentified driver jumped a curb in a Chevy Cavalier and tore through five 'Curve' street signs and came to rest after bending a fire hydrant. Police found the ...

11 years ago
A boy who found $10,000 in a Kansas City hotel room won't get to keep the cash even though it remains unclaimed. Tyler Schaefer stumbled upon the neatly stacked bills in a hotel drawer last May 25 and handed it over to two uniformed off-duty police officers working at the hotel. The Police Department is ...

11 years ago
Salina South High School's Principal is leaving the school to take another job in the district. According to USD 305, Linn Exline will become the new Executive Director of School Improvement. Exline has been a public educator for 22 years, most recently serving as the principal of Salina South High School since 2008. She has also ...

11 years ago
In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said. Manning, formerly named Bradley, was convicted of sending classified documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The soldier has asked for hormone therapy and to ...

11 years ago
The year's third Kansas Honor Flight is headed to Washington, D.C., to give veterans a chance to visit memorials to their wars and others. The flight was scheduled to leave Wichita on Wednesday carrying four World War II veterans and 23 Korean War vets, along with their guardians, to the nation's capital. The trip is organized by ...

11 years ago
State Board of Education members are struggling with applications from the first two Kansas school districts seeking innovative status under a 2013 state law, and with the law's implications for the board's authority. The board created a subcommittee Tuesday to meet with the Concordia and McPherson school districts to discuss their applications and resolve several questions. ...

11 years ago
Former U.S. Senator and Republican Presidential Candidate Bob Dole stopped in Salina Tuesday afternoon. The 90-year-old former Senate majority leader, who currently is in the middle of three planned tours of his home state, was greeted by a large group of friends and well-wishers. Dole gave a statement, before taking questions from the crowd.  He brought ...

11 years ago
The fourth inmate involved in a 2012 escape from the Ottawa County Jail was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 additional years in prison. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, 24-year-old  Santos M. Carrera-Morales was sentenced to 128 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections by Chief Judge Jerome P. Hellmer in Ottawa County District ...

11 years ago
They'll be running through the streets of Salina on Wednesday - carrying a torch and shining a light on special athletes in Kansas. Deputy Scott Trembly with the Saline County Sheriff's Office has been part of the Special Olympics Torch Run for ten years and tells KSAL News he's focused on athletes, "It's not about who ...

11 years ago
A burn ban for Saline County that has been in effect since March has been rescinded. Saline County Commissioners Tuesday ended the ban, which had been in effect since March 18th. Open burning can resume within the county. If anyone has questions about burning, contact the Saline County Emergency Management Office at 785-826-6511. ...