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Tuesday evening will mark the beginning of a new musical season at Kansas Wesleyan, in more ways than one. The Department of Music will open its annual concert schedule with a 7:30 p.m. performance of the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and String Orchestra. The event will also mark the department’s initial public performance under new chair ...

4 years ago
The Pollution Prevention Institute at Kansas State University has received a $333,000 grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, or KDHE, to provide free, confidential environmental compliance assistance to Kansas small businesses. Nancy Larson, director of the Pollution Prevention Institute, said the funding will allow the program to provide a variety of services, including ...

4 years ago
A sun-soaked Saturday provided the perfect backdrop for the 2021 Smoky Hill Museum Street Fair. The day began with a parade down Santa Fe and then the crowd headed down Iron Street to return to the 'Old West.'   Wild Bill Hickok was on hand to watch over the town as cowboys and even a few cattle ...

4 years ago
A federal grand jury Friday returned an indictment charging 15 people with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine in Kansas. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the defendants allegedly intentionally conspired to distribute cocaine in the state of Kansas and elsewhere between January 2019 ...

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A missing 77-year-old man who was the subject of a statewide Silver Alert has been discovered deceased at the Leavenworth State Fishing Lake. The statewide Silver Alert is now canceled. - - - ORIGINAL: A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for an elderly Kansas man who went fishing on Tuesday and has not been seen since. According ...

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A pilot from Texas was able to walk away after he was forced to make a rough landing at a small airport in Central Kansas. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 69-year-old Perry Proffitt from Keller, Texas, was flying a 1964 Beechcraft single-engine fixed wing aircraft. The agency says as he was landing at Hillsboro Municipal ...

4 years ago
Two pillars of the Salina business community have announced an exciting new partnership, as Mahaska and Kansas Wesleyan have joined forces. Mahaska will be the official beverage provider for KWU, and will sponsor both the KWU Exemplary Teacher Award and scholarship opportunities designed to support Marketing and Business students from north-central Kansas. “It has been an ...

4 years ago
There have been 37 new COVID cases in Saline County since Wednesday and no new deaths. According to the Saline County Health Department there are currently 708 active cases of the virus in the community. Salina Regional Health Center reports they have 13 patients in the hospital battling the virus. Overall, 146 people have died in Saline County ...

4 years ago
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a couple of suspects caught on camera in a vandalism case. The crime is this week's Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. Police say on September 16th officers investigated a damage to property which occurred at 2:21 AM in the 600 block of S 3rd Street. The ...

4 years ago
It was the end of an era this summer at Kansas State University Salina with the retirement of Greg Stephens, the last remaining faculty member who was part of the campus when it was the Kansas College of Technology. The college merged with K-State in 1991, and many of its faculty at that time were ...

4 years ago
A Texas man is facing several charges after leading officers on a pursuit late Thursday night. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers responded to reports of a disorderly subject at a bar at 2030 S. Ohio Street around midnight. As officers were in route, the subject, later identified as 33-year-old Rick Cisneros, left ...