6 years ago
The price at the pump is expected to spike. According to AAA Kansas, on the week, the national gas price average held steady at $2.56, with the Kansas average rising two cents to $2.35 per gallon, but motorists can expect volatility at the pump in the coming days and weeks. Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia experienced ...

6 years ago
Kansas State Fair officials are planning to re-evaluate the event's gun policy. KSNW reports that fair organizers are examining the firearms policy because concert security concerns could conflict with state law. Concertgoers at this year's Kansas State Fair had to undergo screening at country music singer Bill Currington's concert because the performer required it in his contract.

6 years ago
A woman from Utah contacted police after her wedding ring was stolen during a stop at a Salina gas station. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that on Saturday evening around 7pm, 43-year-old Emily Crabtree drove into the Petro 2 station at 2125 N. 9th and left the door unlocked on her 2015 Toyota Prius ...

6 years ago
A piece of road construction equipment owned by a Manhattan, KS company was reported stolen after it fell off a truck in Salina. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that an driver for Shilling Construction pulled off I-135 at the Schilling exit and felt a bump. When he checked his load at Tractor Supply he ...

6 years ago
A detached storage garage was destroyed by fire in Gypsum early Monday morning. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that firefighters were sent to 608 Spring Street just before 1am as flames and smoke poured from the building. Deputies say owner, Donald Stebbins had used a nearby burn pit earlier in the day and likely ...

6 years ago
Two people were hurt in a three-vehicle head-on crash in which the driver who caused it fled the scene late Sunday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2006 Nissan Maxima was going the wrong way, headed east in the westbound lane of K18 Highway. The Nissan struck two on-coming vehicles, a 2013 Chevrolet Cruze ...

6 years ago
A “Drug Take Back” will be part this week's Sunflower Fair.  The “Hello Yellow Brick Road!” Sunflower Fair is this Tuesday from 8 am to 4 pm at Tony’s Pizza Events Center. The Saline County’s Sheriff’s Office will accept old and unused prescription drugs at event. The drug take back is among the wide array of exhibits, ...

6 years ago
Cowboys who were tough enough to wear pink were tough enough to collect over $3,300 in the fight against cancer. According to Abilene's Wild Bill Hickock Rodeo the final count is in, and $3,358.46 was raised by their "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" fundraiser. The money will go to the Elsie Brooks Memorial Cancer Fund, to ...

6 years ago
A motorcycle rider was hurt when he crashed while fleeing police in South Central Kansas. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 21-year-old Skyler Rupp from Wichita was riding a 2004 Suzuki motorcycle fleeing Mount Hope Police on a rural road in Reno County.  He lost control of the bike and crashed. Rupp suffered a suspected serious injury. ...

6 years ago
Kansas State University is leading a multi-agency team focused on improving water and nitrogen use efficiencies and improving soil health in the semi-arid southern Great Plains. The nearly $10 million five-year research effort is led by K-State University Distinguished Professor Chuck Rice and includes a transdisciplinary team from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, ...

6 years ago
A woman from Missouri was killed in a wrong-way crash along Interstate 70 in Western Kansas early Saturday afternoon involving a car and two semis. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 40-year-old Monica Miller from Columbia, Missouri, was driving a 2007 Saturn Ion headed east. She crossed the median and struck the front end of a ...