10 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a white male suspect who passed a counterfeit $100 bill at Popeyes Chicken at 2125 N. 9th on Thursday afternoon and stole the change. Police say he ordered a $12 meal and paid with the bogus bill. He then entered Starbucks Coffee in the same complex and attempted to purchase a $6 ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is arrested after his manager discovered him stealing a mattress and box springs from the store. Police arrested 22-year-old Michael McDaniel on Thursday for allegedly loading a Serta mattress and box springs into his truck at Sears, 2259 S. 9th. The set, valued at $2,099 was recovered.

10 years ago
Authorities say a train has struck and killed a man in central Kansas. The Newton Kansan reports that the man was killed Friday morning in Newton. Police say investigators are working to identify the man who had no identification with him when he died. The Kansas Highway Patrol is assisting with the investigation.

10 years ago
A Salina daycare provider is arrested for allegedly choking a child who was in her care at 1912 Simmons Street. Police took 51-year-old Christine A. Knipp into custody on Thursday after the mother of a preschool age girl called police about marks she discovered on her child's neck. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that officers found ...

10 years ago
An overnight fire that damaged a downtown Salina building is under investigation. First responders were called to a fire just after 1:00 Friday morning at the Salvation Army Thrift Store at 157 S. 5th Street. There was smoke and flames, on the outside of the back of the building. Firefighters were able to quickly get it ...

10 years ago
A rural Saline County Community has a special event planned this Friday and Saturday, with a goal of putting the finishing touches on a community park. Volunteers will gather for a "community build" in Assaria to help construct playground equipment at the Assaria Community Park. Volunteers have been steadily renovating the park. When the project began the ...

10 years ago
After clearing some federal hurdles with the TSA essential air service returned to Salina this week. Tim Rogers Executive Director at Salina Airport Authority joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a smile. "It took awhile. It took great effort and almost literally an act of Congress to get Salina up and approved for federalization so ...

10 years ago
The president and CEO of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce is telling legislators that they're not required to increase spending to satisfy the state Supreme Court's latest ruling on education funding. Chamber CEO Mike O'Neal testified Thursday that legislators could direct the State Department of Education to shift unused funds among school districts to cover additional ...

10 years ago
Police are looking for someone who stole a white, 1996 Chevy Lumina that was taken from a parking lot in the 600 block of S. 3rd sometime between Monday and Wednesday. The car is valued at $600 and has a Kansas Disabled tag - 73694. Police arrested 24-year-old Rex C. Vaughn on Wednesday for criminal use ...

10 years ago
High winds are blamed for causing a freak accident that injured a Salina man. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office responded to Woodward Road near Crawford Street around 6:15pm Wednesday evening. Deputies report that during a quick moving thunderstorm, gusting winds snapped a power line pole. The broken pole then swung like pool cue stick and shattered ...

10 years ago
An elderly Saline County woman contacted the Sheriff's Office Wednesday after having a conversation on the phone with a scam artist. She told Sheriff Glen Kochanowski that the caller said he was an FBI agent and needed the woman to send him $4,300 to pay for her grandson's bail who was being held at the jail. The ...