8 years ago
Salina's Professional indoor football team is planning to help a high school student in his battle to tackle cancer. On April 26th 2017, Greg Gibson, a student at Salina Central High School, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma - a cancerous bone tumor. During this Saturday's' Salina Liberty home game the team will be wearing special edition jerseys ...

8 years ago
A school finance bill approved by Kansas lawmakers is short on funding. The measure will increase public school funding by 534-million-dollars over five years. According to the Kansas Department of Education website, 80-million-dollars of that funding will not be there because of what officials say was an error. Officials say schools will still get a funding increase, but ...

8 years ago
A long-time Salina educator will be inducted into the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame. George Troutfetter, who has spent nearly 50 years in public education in Salina, is one of the 2018 inductees. During his career in Salina Troutfetter has been a teacher, assistant principal, counselor, and coach. Troutfetter started his career teaching at Salina Central High ...

8 years ago
Police say it's fortunate no one was seriously injured in a crash early Wednesday morning that was caused by a car driving the wrong on one of the main roads through Salina. The crash happened at 7:52 am in the 2700 block of South 9th Street. Police Sgt. Brent Rupert told KSAL News at the scene ...

8 years ago
Police are investigating after a stolen SUV was recovered in Wichita Monday evening. The owner of a 2009 H3T Hummer told officers someone stole the vehicle while it was warming up in his driveway in the 900 block of Birch around 6am. Hours later Wichita Police found the Hummer stuck in a small body of ...

8 years ago
An alleged motorcycle thief is jailed after failing a roadside sobriety test on Monday morning. According to Police Sergeant Jim Feldman, an officer on patrol made a traffic stop in the 1200 block of N. 9th around 6am Monday. Police arrested 32-year-old Amanda Rothfuss of Salina on charges for DUI and drug related crimes and impounded ...

8 years ago
An empty convenience store and former gas station was ransacked recently by copper thieves. Undersheriff Brent Melander tells KSAL News, the owner of the vacant Stuckey's store near Bridgeport on South Old 81-Highway contacted authorities after discovering someone had broken into the building and destroyed numerous cooling units while removing the copper. Deputies say sometime between March ...

8 years ago
A fan favorite and best selling Christian pop rock band is coming to Salina. Newsboys are coming to the Tony's Pizza Events Center. The group's summer tour "Newsboys United" will roll into Salina on August 2nd. According to Premier Productions, Newsboys is welcoming back to the stage former bandmates Peter Furler and Phil Joel for the ...

8 years ago
Authorities are saying the suspect accused of making a fake emergency call that led to a deadly officer-involved shooting in Wichita accidentally gained internet access. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office says Tyler Barriss and more than a dozen other jail inmates briefly gained internet access on April 6th after an improper software upgrade. Officials say four tweets ...

8 years ago
For the second time in a couple of weeks blood dripping from the trunk of a car prompted the arrest of an alleged poacher. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism at around 10:00 Saturday night a Douglas County Sheriff Deputy stopped to assist occupants of a car parked on the side of ...

8 years ago
A Belleville man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for rape of a person under the age of 14. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, 52-year-old Jose Ines Cuellar was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 25 years for one count of rape. Cuellar will also serve ...