9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating an incident that happened early on Saturday morning at the Rendezvous Bar at 245 North Santa Fe. The 29-year-old victim was struck in the face by a known male suspect. The victim fell and hit his head. He was then treated at Salina Regional Health Center and received stitches. ...

9 years ago
Police are investigating an aggravated battery case that happened on Christmas Day on the 900 block of Gypsum. 48-year-old Mary Canaday of Salina was arrested for allegedly hitting a 35-year-old acquaintance in her home with a crowbar. The victim sustained minor injuries, and on searching, police also found a baggie of meth on Canaday.   On Monday, ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investing a forgery case at Marshall Motors at 3500 South 9th Street. Ronald Hockett, 36 of Salina, allegedly attempted to purchase a grey 2016 Nissan Versa from Marshall Motors on December 8th. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL that Hockett wrote a check from a closed bank account for $2,200, the amount needed for ...

9 years ago
What started as a routine traffic stop on Broadway turned into a high speed chase that left Saline County Sheriff's Office in the fog. At 2:07 pm on Christmas Day, a Saline County Deputy attempted to pull over a dark blue Dodge Dakota that had defective tail lights. The vehicle failed to stop, and instead, started ...

9 years ago
Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a theft on the 4900 block of North Reese Road. Under sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL that on Friday morning, someone broke into a building housing vehicles on the farmstead by breaking a window and stole a steel animal Conibear trap valued at $30. Total loss and damage is valued at ...

9 years ago
For the seventh straight year, the Kansas State Wildcats are going bowling! K-State is down in Houston for the Texas Bowl. KSU takes on former Big 12 foe Texas A&M at NRG Stadium on Wednesday. Follow the Cats behind the scenes with Clarke Sanders, KSAL operations manager, Todd Pittenger, KSAL news director, and Pat Strathman, KSAL sports ...

9 years ago
Conservatives' election losses have been named the state's top story of 2016 by Associated Press reporters and editors. The gains for moderates followed mounting discontent over budget shortfalls, education funding and sales and cigarette tax increases. A gunman killing three people and wounding 14 others in February at a Hesston lawnmower factory was the second-biggest story of ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court says a man serving about 54 years in prison after being convicted in a 1999 rape and robbery case in Lawrence may be entitled to a few more days in court. The high court Friday ordered the Kansas Court of Appeals to reconsider if a case can be made that Terry D. ...

9 years ago
A nearly $40,000 cleanup is set to begin at a Lawrence community building that was found to have high levels of lead. Since the lead contamination was discovered this year, the basement room at the Community Building has been locked up. Professional decontamination is set to begin Monday. Mark Hecker, assistant director of the Lawrence Parks ...

9 years ago
For the 34th year in a row Salina Chef Bill Fekas prepared the biggest Christmas dinner in Salina. A large crowd enjoyed the annual Bill Fekas Family Christmas Dinner. Fekas had a dream in 1982 to prepare and serve a free dinner for anyone who was alone on Christmas Day. Late Salina businessman Dean Evans told ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has disbarred a longtime Topeka lawyer from practice because of how he handled two clients' estates. In the unanimous ruling Friday, the court disbarred Bruce C. Harrington, saying he "violated his duties to his clients, to the legal system, to the profession, and to the public." The court's ruling said Harrington wrote himself ...