5 years ago
In support of its students and with their feedback, Kansas Wesleyan announced Friday that it will move its annual spring commencement ceremony to Saturday, August 15. The university had previously announced that the May 9 ceremony would not take place as scheduled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After consulting with several groups, including the 2020 senior class, ...

5 years ago
The Greater Salina Community Foundation recently awarded over $18,000 to 12 charitable projects and organizations in Saline County. Recipients will be recognized on Wednesday through a virtual #CovidCantStopGood grant tour on the community foundation’s Facebook page. The following organizations received funding: The CASTLE Project, $3,275.97 to purchase STEM learning materials and pay the STEM teacher for the ...

5 years ago
Saline County has gone two days without a new confirmed COVID-19 case.  According to the Saline County Health Department there has not been a new case since the 8th case in Salina was confirmed on Wednesday. Here is Friday's Saline County update: We do not have any additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report for Saline County ...

5 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in solving a recent theft. The crime is this week's Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. According to the sheriff's office, on Thursday of this week they responded to the A&A Towing storage lot at 1334 N Ohio St #A in rural Saline County ...

5 years ago
A little more than 1,100 Kansans have tested positive now for COVID-19 in the state, with 50 deaths statewide. The Kansas Department of Health & Environment updated its findings at 8:30 a.m. Friday and says that 1,166 people have now tested positive for the virus--with 274 hospitalizations. Locally, Saline County holds at eight cases of COVID-19 as ...

5 years ago
Another drug related arrest is made in connection to a group of people tied to a February robbery. Lt. Jeremiah Hayes with the Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that 26-year-old Valerie Vogel was taken into custody on Thursday after investigators found meth pipes and syringes in her home in the 1300 block of E. ...

5 years ago
The governor of Kansas is fighting back to limit church gatherings. Laura Kelly has asked the state's Supreme Court to keep her ban in place. She ordered all religious gatherings to no more than ten people on Tuesday to slow the spread of coronavirus. But lawmakers overturned that. Now, she's suing them. Kelly calls their vote "mind-blowing" and ...

5 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a business burglary at a towing company. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that sometime between Tuesday and Thursday, someone cut a hole in the fence at A&A Towing and Recovery located at 1334 N. Ohio and removed numerous items from some of the vehicles on the lot. Deputies say ...

5 years ago
Even though recent circumstances make live performances of "St Matthew Passion" on Good Friday and the "Messiah" on Easter Sunday at Bethany College impossible, it's not impossible to still hear them. Good Friday afternoon at 3:00 last year's "St. Matthew Passion" will be broadcast in Downtown Lindsborg  on the street P.A. system. Good Friday evening at 6:00 ...

5 years ago
At least 100 prisoners were rioting at a Kansas prison. Authorities say the trouble started at the Lansing Correctional Facility around 3 p.m.Thursday after several inmates refused a lock-down order. The situation went downhill from there. By Thursday evening, some 100 to 150 inmates were damaging offices and equipment. Some were seen on video destroying prison property. It ...

5 years ago
Health officials in McPherson say community spread of COVID-19 is now likely, and they are providing information about a grocery store employee who might have been contagious while at work for two days. The McPherson County Health Department says due to the increasing amount of COVID-19 cases in their community  without a history of travel, they ...