6 years ago
A Bennington woman is among a group of players who are headed to see the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Denver Broncos after winning a lottery prize valued at over $3,500. According to the Kansas Lottery, 10 lucky players have won tickets to the game in Kansas City on December 15th. The players qualified for the ...

6 years ago
Firefighters made quick work of a fire at a Salina church Wednesday evening. At around 6:00 first responders were called to the report of a fire at the Village Bible Church at 1301 Osage. Salina Fire Department Battalion Chief David Turner told KSAL News at the scene there was an active fire, with flames visible, when the ...

6 years ago
An anonymous tip to Salina Police leads to a drug related arrest on Tuesday evening. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were sent to Bennington State Bank at 200 S. 9th Street around 7pm after someone called authorities about spotting a man wanted for a probation violation. Police contacted 38-year-old Justin Crough outside the ...

6 years ago
NASA experts are weighing in on a meteor spotted streaking across the Midwest sky. The NASA Meteoroid Environments Office in Huntsville, Alabama says the bright light Monday night was a basketball-size hunk of rock that broke off an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter before entering Earth's atmosphere as a meteor. The meteor was accompanied by ...

6 years ago
A gift from a Kansas couple will help Kansas State University establish 50 new scholarships. According to the school, the estate of Otis and Wanda Gilliland, Wellington, has given $1.6 million to KSU.  This gift has established the Gilliland K-State Family Scholarship, which creates match opportunities for 50 scholarships in support of students in the university's ...

6 years ago
Barbara Mulvihill, an information services librarian at Salina Public Library, will present “Stop Playing Telephone: Separating Fact From Fiction in Family Stories” during Family History Detectives on Nov. 21. The genealogy group will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Prescott Room. Many families have stories that have been passed down through the generations. Mulvihill will ...

6 years ago
A storm is forecast for Salina this February...literally. Storm Large will perform at the Stiefel Theatre. Musician, actor, playwright, author, Storm Large shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova, where despite having been eliminated in the week before the finale, Storm built a fan base that follows ...

6 years ago
A California man who allegedly stole a Lowe's delivery truck is now sitting in the Saline County Jail facing theft charges. According to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester, 53-year-old Carlo Watson jumped into a 17-foot Lowe's truck that was left running in the 300 block of W. South Street Friday afternoon around 2:30pm. A couple of Lowe's ...

6 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary after a cash and a vehicle were stolen. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that sometime between 5pm on November 9 and 8am on November 11, someone entered an unlocked home in the 400 block of Indiana Street and took a backpack loaded with clothes and approximately $500 in ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary at a farmstead near Gypsum. Deputies were sent to the 7200 block of S. Whitmore Road after someone entered an open shed and stole a 2006 Honda 4-wheel ATV worth $1,200. Also taken was a 6-foot log splitter with a Briggs and Stratton engine. Total loss is listed ...

6 years ago
A Salina man wanted on two felony warrants in McPherson County was taken into custody over the weekend. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were called to the 100 block of North Connecticut around 9pm Sunday evening to check on a man who was repeatedly knocking on a door and being disorderly. Police say ...