4 years ago
Hundreds of people are taken off the streets during a crackdown on violent crime in the Wichita area. Wichita police and the U.S. Marshals Service partnered for Operation Triple Beam. The 60-day operation resulted in one-thousand-72 arrests including 141 alleged gang members, the seizure of 221 guns, 165 kilograms of narcotics and more than 200-thousand-dollars.

4 years ago
A Bennington man was hurt in a single-vehicle rollover crash in rural Ottawa County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 48-year-old Brandon Cochran was driving a 2019 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck headed west on K-18 Highway. He went into the south ditch, rolled, and came back on the road where the truck came to rest on ...

4 years ago
Hospice of Salina will host its 15th annual Pumpkins for Patients fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday at the Kaye Pogue Hospice Center, 730 Holly Lane, Salina. According to Salina Regional Health Center, this year’s event will be a “drive-thru” sale due to COVID-19. Shoppers can choose from a wide variety of pumpkins and ...

4 years ago
There have been 46 new COVID cases in Saline County and no new COVID related deaths since Monday According to the Saline County Health Department there are currently 563 active cases of the virus in the community. Salina Regional Health Center reports they have 17 patients in the hospital battling the virus. Overall, 148 people have now died ...

4 years ago
A write-in candidate for the USD 305 School Board recently contacted police about threatening messages she said she received in the mail. Hollie Henoch tells KSAL News that an anonymous letter may have been sent to intimidate her candidacy. [audio mp3="https://www.ksal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Holli.mp3"][/audio]   Henoch says she took the letters in stride but having men show up in ski masks at ...

4 years ago
Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Tod Hileman remembers the white knuckles of parents waiting for him to deliver “the words they never wanted to hear.” Their teenage daughter had died in a car crash on the highway. “What caught my attention was they were squeezing each other’s hand so tight,” he said. “… I just got the sense, ...

4 years ago
Brett Hubka wanted to leave a lasting mark on Clay Center when choosing the annual project for his Rotary Club. First he considered updating the city’s welcome sign but quickly decided against it when he discovered all the red tape involved in placing a sign near the highway. “A mural project has been talked about for ...

4 years ago
A disgruntled pizza customer leaves the store, then shatters the glass of a nearby business in Salina's Elmore Center. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that detectives are reviewing video from Little Caesers Pizza on E. Crawford, after a white male became angry at the counter and stormed out the door. A short time later he ...

4 years ago
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation  is investigating the death of a 17-year-old who died after being in law enforcement custody. According to the agency, preliminary information indicates that at approximately 1 a.m. on Sept. 24th, officers from the Wichita Police Department responded to a disturbance call from a resident at 1221 S. Fox Run in Wichita. ...

4 years ago
There were no injuries when nearly a half-dozen train cars slid off railroad tracks in Dickinson County. Dickinson County Emergency Management Director Chancy Smith tells KSAL News the incident happened when a train derailed on Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Herington late Sunday morning. According to Smith, five grain cars carrying wheat left the tracks. One went ...

4 years ago
A man considered to be a dangerous sex offender who escaped from a state mental hospital in Kansas is back in custody after 3 months on the run. Authorities say John Freeman Colt was captured Monday night. According to KWCH TV in Wichita, U.S. Marshal for the District of Kansas Ronald Miller said Wayne County, Utah authorities ...