11 years ago
Salina Police are reviewing an arrest made last Friday, after an officer used a taser on a man who would not exit his vehicle. The incident was captured on video by a cell phone that was inside the vehicle. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that the department is looking into an arrest that was made ...

11 years ago
Residents of a small central Kansas town are tired of seeing their town's name misspelled. For the record, it's St. John, not Saint John, Kansas. The 1,200 residents of the Stafford County town blame the U.S. Postal Service for the confusion. The town is listed in the postal service's computer system with the incorrect spelling. ...

11 years ago
A man convicted of beating a 36-year-old teacher to death in 1990 in Topeka is among several prison inmates under consideration for parole. Peter E. Spencer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the September 1990 death of Sherryl Crowder, who was from Manhattan and had been a sixth-grade teacher in Wamego. An autopsy ...

11 years ago
A U.S. Senate subcommittee has endorsed a spending bill that would authorize $300 million for the construction of a new national bioscience lab at Kansas State University in Manhattan. In a joint news release Tuesday, Republican Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran say the money for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility was approved by ...

11 years ago
Harvest crews on Tuesday are hoping to get back out in the fielda after widespread rain late Sunday into Monday across Kansas again stalled the winter wheat harvest with nearly a quarter of the state's crop now in the bin. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that parts of Kansas received a half-inch to 2 ...

11 years ago
The daughter of a primary challenger to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach had her voter registration put on hold temporarily because of a proof-of-citizenship requirement criticized by her father. Republican Scott Morgan of Lawrence said Monday the Douglas County clerk's office told his 18-year-old daughter, Grace, that her registration was incomplete because she hadn't documented ...

11 years ago
State health officials have been at the site of an accident along an eastern Kansas natural gas pipeline that spewed a natural gas cloud that left a dark, oily residue over now withering crops and trees. The incident Thursday along a Panhandle Eastern pipeline near Olpe occurred as crews were trying to perform pipeline maintenance. Residents ...

11 years ago
An incident in which a Wichita man is tased by a Salina Police Officer is caught on video. According to Salina Police, an officer on patrol made a traffic stop on Friday night at the corner of 9th and Kirwin just before 11pm. Upon further investigation, the officer learned that the driver, 30-year-old Zachary Noel of ...

11 years ago
A Salina man pleads no contest to first-degree murder in connection with the death of his 3-month-old son. Saline County Attorney Ellen Mitchell tells KSAL News that 27-year-old Nicholas Corbin pleaded no contest to first-degree murder Monday afternoon in Saline County District Court. Last week, 21-year-old Desirah N. Overturf plead no contest to the same ...

11 years ago
Official's will test Salina's local emergency notification system. Back in February Salina and Saline County implemented the CodeRED high-speed emergency notification service. The system can send messages to both citizens and City/County personnel by using telephone calls, text messages, emails and social media in an effort to effectively inform residents to protect life and property. CodeRED, ...

11 years ago
Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday said May’s average temperature on Earth of 59.93 degrees Fahrenheit beat the old record set four years ago. In April, the globe tied ...