9 years ago
A state education consultant says Kansas could benefit from addressing the impact of childhood trauma on students' ability to learn. Kent Reed, school counseling program consultant for the Kansas Department of Education, told the State Board of Education last week that stress from adverse childhood events can lead to lower test scores, language difficulties, behavioral issues ...

9 years ago
A rule that prevents utilities from disconnecting Kansas customers during extreme cold takes effect when November arrives. The cold weather rule is enforced by the Kansas Corporation Commission and runs from Tuesday November 1st through March 31st. The rule bars utilities from disconnecting electric or natural gas service for non payment when temperatures of 35 or lower ...

9 years ago
Consumers should expect to pay more for natural gas this winter. The American Gas Association says colder temperatures will increase usage for those who heat with natural gas. And prices will be higher because they're set according to demand. A senior analyst with the trade group says the average consumer will spend ten percent more on natural ...

9 years ago
In celebration of the Bill of Rights 225th anniversary, the National Archives is holding conversations across the nation to explore the continuing and often complicated issues of rights in our age. God, Guns, and Freedom seeks to facilitate discussion of these critical and often controversial amendments with two programs designed to help Kansans negotiate the ...

9 years ago
Passengers continue to fill more and more seats on flights bound for Denver from Salina. "Eighteen full weeks of scheduled service, non-stop flights to Denver and each week has been progressively better than the previous week," said Tim Rogers, Executive Director Salina Airport Authority. Rogers tells KSAL News that the air service from Great Lakes is also ...

9 years ago
Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is saying that he'll accept this year's election results and will encourage all candidates for office to do the same. The Kansas Republican issued a statement Thursday in response to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claims that election fraud could cost him the White House. Trump wouldn't agree during the final ...

9 years ago
Between October 6 and October 10, 2016 force was used to commit burglaries at All Seasons Power Equipment, 821 N. Broadway, Kinderknecht Concrete Construction, 501 N. Santa Fe, Bengston Tire and Service, 730 N. Santa Fe and 900 N. Santa Fe. A .22 revolver, pliers in a leather pouch, flashlight, Yamaha 1000 watt generator, Harbor Freight ...

9 years ago
A Salina downtown business is burglarized again. Investigators returned to the 100 block of E. Iron on Monday, after someone broke into Iron Street Tattoo, 113 E. Iron for a second time in three days. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that sometime between 2am and 6am October 17, someone forced open a back door that lead ...

9 years ago
A mentally ill Kansas man has pleaded guilty to killing a man three days after he was released from a state psychiatric hospital in a case that prompted a state inquiry. The Kansas City Star reports that Brandon Brown, of Haviland, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Kiowa County to second-degree murder. Prosecutors said he beat 61-year-old Jerry ...

9 years ago
Police arrested a Salina man Wednesday on theft charges in connection to a vehicle burglary in September. Police requested a warrant for 21-year-old Quentin R. Lashell last month after an investigation revealed he had taken 3 pool cues from a Cadillac parked in the 700 block of Gypsum sometime between September 11 and September 14. Police say ...

9 years ago
An Ohio man was injured east of Salina after his vehicle struck a deer early Thursday morning on I-70. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, 22-year-old Marshall Bohlander of Cincinnati, Ohio was driving westbound in a 2004 Mazda Tribute SUV and struck a deer near the Solomon rest area and rolled. EMS transported Bohlander to the ...