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A Kansas State Trooper was injured while assisting a motorist along Interstate 70 west of Salina Wednesday afternoon when a patrol vehicle was hit. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 64-year-old Steven Sneath was in an agency Dodge Durango, legally stopped on the west bound shoulder of I-70 near mile marker 249 performing a motorist assist. ...

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A thief's conversation with a Saline County Sheriff's deputy leads to his arrest. Captain Jim Hughes tells KSAL News that a deputy on patrol pulled over Tuesday morning to check on a car parked on the side of the road near Heath Auto Salvage, 2640 W. Old 40 Highway. The deputy became suspicious with the reason why ...

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Salina Police worked a two car injury crash on Tuesday. According to Police Captain Paul Forrester, both drivers in the accident that occurred near the intersection of Crawford and 5th had minor injuries because the airbags deployed. Police say the 48-year-old female driver from Salina was cited for failure to yield and she had no driver's license ...

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A single vehicle crash on West State Street may have been caused by mechanical failure of the vehicle. Captain Jim Hughes with the Saline County Sheriff's Department tells KSAL News that the 52-year-old male driver suffered minor injuries after his 1998 Lincoln Town Car left the road in the 11,000 block of West State and hit ...

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Tuesday's severe weather could be the opening act to Thursday's main event. After severe storms rolled across a large portion of Kansas Tuesday afternoon, forecaster say even more significant severe weather is possible Thursday. Severe Thunderstorms Tuesday brought wind in excess of 80 miles per hour,  dropped hail up to the size of ping-pong balls, and dropped ...

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The Sacred Heart Knights Forensic team brought home some hardware from the recently competed state event. According to the school, the Knights took 3rd place in overall competition against 27 other teams at the KSHSAA 2A State Forensics Saturday, May 6th, in Wichita. Abram Anderson, in his second year of competition, took first place in Extemporaneous speaking, ...

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The roles will be reversed when Alexis Utz walks into school in August. After 16 years as a student and member of an athletic team, she’ll be that person standing in front of the class and on the sidelines coaching the team. It will be a stark contrast to what she’s been accustomed to, but Utz says ...

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The USD #298 Track Fundraising Committee's Track-A-Thon was deemed an overwhelming success by organizers after dozens of people of all ages gathered at the track at Lincoln's Mettner Field on Saturday night, May 6th. Fifteen fundraising teams featuring walkers (and a few runners) of all ages turned hundreds of combined laps during the six-hour event that started ...

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Get the heck into Kansas is the message four Kansas communities are sharing. This week, the Abilene, Dodge City, Hays and Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureaus rolled out their new “Gunsmoke Trail.” “Gunsmoke" is a television western drama series based in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. "Gunsmoke" is the ...

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An Abilene native will be honored with his likeness on the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo buckle. Ethan McDonald, who grew up in Abilene and now lives in Paola, Kan., is the feature on this year’s rodeo buckle. The son of John and Mary McDonald, the McDonald family returned to Abilene when Ethan was an eighth grader, after ...

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A Salina man is in jail after assaulting an 18-year-old woman in a house he was verbally banned from. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 45-year-old George J. Wagner was taken into custody on Monday night after an altercation that involved the woman and her 14-year-old brother. Police say the woman heard someone in a ...