8 years ago
Kansas ranks towards the bottom one-third in seat belt usage among all 50 states. State and local law enforcement are working to improve this ranking by stepping up enforcement to crack down on motorists who aren’t wearing their seat belts as part of the Click it. Or ticket. seat belt enforcement campaign. More than 150 law ...

8 years ago
The 2018 Smoky Hill River Festival offers an amazing “Sensory Feast” of things to see and experience. Among the notable things to watch for at Festival 2018 are: Another amazing Festival T-shirt designed by exhibiting artist Angie Pickman from Lawrence, KS. Featuring a folksy design that includes an artist palette, guitar, sunflowers and a river ...

8 years ago
Salina City Manager Jason Gage is a finalist for a similar job in Missouri. According to the city of Springfield, Gage is one of two finalists for the the city manager position in their community. Gaga is no stranger to the Show Me State. He graduated from Missouri Southern State College in Joplin with a bachelor's degree ...

8 years ago
A recent Chapman High School graduate was killed in a car crash in rural Dickinson County on Monday. According the Dickinson County Sheriff Gareth Hoffman deputies were called to Rain Road at 11:20 p.m. on Monday. It appeared that 17-year-old Colin Henderson was northbound in a 2013 Nissan near the 3200 block of Rain Road. North ...

8 years ago
Erik Bowell is living proof that from a person's darkest moments can come the inspiration needed to change one's own life. At 47, Bowell is by most standards an unlikely med student and literally the gray beard of this year's class of eight freshly minted doctors who will be graduating from the University of Kansas ...

8 years ago
A woman from Manhattan is joining Ellsworth County farmer Josh Svaty as his running mate in his quest to be governor. The Svaty campaign announced Wednesday Katrina Lewison of Manhattan as his running mate for Lt. Governor of Kansas. Lewison, born and raised in Hutchinson and Buhler. She is a graduate of the United States Military Academy ...

8 years ago
A country music hall of famer is coming to Salina. Vince Gill is coming to perform at the Stiefel Theatre. According to the venue, Gill is one of the most popular and most recorded singers of the past quarter-century.   Gill’s current MCA Records album is Down To My Last Bad Habit, of which he wrote/co-wrote, co-produced ...

8 years ago
A Saline County man was able to walk away from an accident after tipping over his tractor in rural southern Saline County. Saline County Sheriff's Capt. Jim Hughes tells KSAL News that the accident happened in the 8900 block of S. Halstead Rd on Tuesday evening. 62-year-old Donald Sims, of rural Saline County, was driving a Farmall ...

8 years ago
The search is on for a a group of Salina siblings who are missing. Kansas Missing and Unsolved tells KSAL News 8-year-old Rosalia Lopez Milleson, 5-year-old Lorenzo Lopez Milleson, 3-year-old Nellie Lopez Milleson, and 1-year-old Carman Lopez Garcia went missing from Salina earlier this month, back on May 6th. All of the children are believed to be ...

8 years ago
A fire inside a mixing room at a Salina food supply company leads to over $200,000 in loss and damages. Fire Marshal Troy Long with SFD tells KSAL News that the fire sprinkler system at McShares Food Supply & Equipment saved the company from further losses after a fire ignited just before 10:30pm Tuesday evening. Long says ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a white male suspect after a west Salina business was burglarized. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that authorities were called to Jumpin' Joe's Family Fun Center, 1634 Sunflower, at 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday evening in reference to damage found at the facility. Forrester says that an employee found a door ...