11 years ago
Dry conditions prompt a burn ban in Saline County. According to the Saline County Emergency Management Office, effective Tuesday, the county commission declared a State of Local Disaster Emergency to ban open burning operations in Saline County. This resolution is in effect for seven days for all cities and townships within Saline County. Saline County has ...

11 years ago
Police in Ohio have arrested a former Kansas man in connection with bomb threats made at two Dodge City restaurants. The Hutchinson News reports the 30-year-old former Dodge City resident was arrested Monday morning in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, on a Ford County warrant for aggravated criminal threat and two counts of criminal threat. Dodge City police say ...

11 years ago
Police are investigating a damage to property case after a vehicle is damaged at a Salina business. According to Lt. Sean Morton a 2005 Chevy Impala was damaged in the parking area of Great Plains  sometime between 4 p.m. and 3 a.m. March 17th through March 18th. The owner of the vehicle who is an employee of ...

11 years ago
A key Kansas senator says legislators are going back and looking at all recommendations for education funding in order to comply with a court mandate to boost school aid. Sen. Tom Arpke says the Senate Ways and Means Committee anticipated reopening discussions of the public school budget on Thursday. Arpke and two senators met briefly Monday to ...

11 years ago
A Salina man admits to a federal gun crime. Acording to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, 45-year-old Stephen M. Smith, Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. In his plea, Smith admitted that he possessed a .40 caliber handgun when he was arrested Sept. 6, 2013, ...

11 years ago
Police are looking for a suspect who was attempting to steal spools of wire from Westar Energy. Salina Police Captain Chris Trocheck tells KSAL News that a white, male ran away from the dock area at 1001 Edison on Saturday morning at about 5:45am. A worker arrived to find the suspect lining up eleven spools of copper ...

11 years ago
Fires kept rural firefighter crews busy over the weekend. According to Captain Roger Soldan with the Saline County Sheriff's Office, a Morton Building burned down Saturday while a hay loft in a barn was damaged by fire on Sunday. Captain Soldan tells KSAL News that Rural Fire District #7 responded to a fire at 2752 W. ...

11 years ago
A locker in an apartment hallway is broken into. Police are investigating the theft of three duffel bags that were stolen from a wooden locker box in an apartment hallway at 2130 E. Crawford sometime between February 16th and March 16th. Someone apparently cut the padlock to gain access. The owner told officers the bags ...

11 years ago
A house and several older vehicles were damaged after a grass fire grew and engulfed the back of a house at 4533 S. Burma Road on Friday. Captain Roger Soldan with the Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that a squirrel was electrocuted on an overhead Westar wire and fell to the ground, igniting the ...

11 years ago
Some graduate students at the University of Kansas are concerned about a proposal that would cut back the number of hours they are allowed to work on campus because of questions about health care reform. The discussion is still in its early stages because of unknowns in the Affordable Care Act about how the law applies ...

11 years ago
Police in the south-central Kansas community of Stafford say a fire that burned down the town's old high school over the weekend is being investigated as arson. A police officer on patrol Saturday night spotted a major fire coming out of the building's third floor around 10 p.m. Stafford Police Chief Doug Brown says the wind ...