9 years ago
A voice that was heard on the radio for years in the Midwest, including on KSAL Radio, is being remembered. Chris Abercrombie passed away on Friday. The 68-year-old Abercrombie, a Lindsborg native, had a passion for radio. He worked in the broadcasting industry much of his adult life, working at multiple radio stations in Kansas and ...

9 years ago
A Topeka man was hurt in a single-vehicle crash near Salina on Monday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 83-year-old Donald Anderson of Topeka was driving a 2014 Ford Mustang, headed east on Interstate  70. He lost control, went across the passing lane and into the median, then back across the lanes and struck a ...

9 years ago
A man suspected of killing a Kansas City, Kansas, police captain will undergo a third evaluation to determine if he is competent to stand trial. Defense attorneys for 21-year-old Jamaal Lewis sought the evaluation by a defense expert. Lewis already has been evaluated locally and at Larned State Hospital. The Kansas City Star reports District Judge Wes ...

9 years ago
A man from Maine has been arrested in California in connection with a murder in Ottawa County. According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, their agency and the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of authorities in California, made an arrest connected to the shooting death of Matthew Schoshke, which occurred earlier this month in ...

9 years ago
A Wichita church says a girl whose body was found in a lake drowned while attending a party for middle-schoolers. The girl's body was found Sunday afternoon. Wichita Fire Department Interim Chief Tammy Snow says the search began several hours earlier after the child's parents came to pick up the youth from the party. Emergency and fire crews ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a burglary from a north side storage unit. Police say sometime between August 11 and August 24, someone cut the lock on a storage shed at City Wide Storage, 440 N. Ohio and stole a Generac GP 3300 portable generator and a Bosch hammer drill and case. Loss is listed at $1010. Salina engineering ...

9 years ago
Police are reviewing surveillance video from a Salina grocery store after a male suspect duped the cashier with some fake cash for a gift card. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that around 3pm Saturday, a black, male suspect in his 20's used 8 counterfeit $50 bills to purchase a $400 Visa gift card at the ...

9 years ago
Another major retail store in Salina is closing. The Dillard's store in the Salina Central Mall is closing. While it had been rumored for several months, employees were officially notified on Monday. The Dillard's corporate office confirmed to KSAL News that the store is closing. According to the company, clearance sales at the store have already started. ...

9 years ago
The new fixed route bus service from Belleville to Salina, 81 Connection, will start running on Tuesday, September 5th. For the first 90 days of operation, complimentary fares will be offered for all riders. The 81 Connection bus service will have three bi-directional trips each day, Monday through Friday. The first route will start in Belleville at ...

9 years ago
Gas prices are expected to rise after Hurricane Harvey. Federal estimates over the weekend said close to one-quarter of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico was offline due to the storm and natural gas production was also lower. More than 100 drilling platforms were evacuated and rigs were closed down as Harvey came roaring across ...

9 years ago
Houston remains a city under siege by Mother Nature Monday, and help is on the way from across the country including from Kansas.  The Bayou City is facing what the National Hurricane Center calls "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding" as what was once Hurricane Harvey continues to hover over the region. People were urged over the weekend ...