11 years ago
A woman miraculously avoided serious injury when a crash knocked her SUV off Interstate 70, and left it upside down in a ditch with water in it. Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Derrick Thompson told KSAL News at the scene that the crash involved a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV and a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. The pickup ...

11 years ago
Westar Energy plans to increase its rates starting in June to cover the costs of its environmental projects. The Kansas Corporation Commission on Thursday approved a $10.8 million increase in Westar's environmental cost recovery rider, for a total of about $68.6 million. The increase will cost the average customer about an extra $4.07 a year. The increases ...

11 years ago
A Salina woman who was wanted an a warrant for a residential burglary is arrested for shoplifting. Police say 19-year-old Lindsey Whisenhunt was stopped at Wal-Mart by loss protection staff for allegedly taking a pair of underwear, 3 pair of shorts and 5 tops on Thursday afternoon without paying for the merchandise . Police say she was ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a counterfeit $50 bill was used to buy food items at Bogey's Restaurant,1417 S. 9th, on Thursday. The fake bill was found in the deposit made at Bennington State Bank and traces back to a transaction that took place on Thursday sometime between 8am and Noon. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News ...

11 years ago
Sometime between May 1st-May 13th, unknown suspect(s) entered onto property, located at 2270 South Hedville Road, during daytime hours and stole scrap metal and homemade industrial tools. The following items were reported stolen: • 9 metal tailgates to gooseneck grain trailers • Sections of a screed (concrete trowel) • Steel riggings • 3 aluminum tool boxes • Unknown amount of galvanized ...

11 years ago
Blake and Lydia Housh of Beloit, Kansas didn’t know what the weekend would bring when they headed to NASCAR’s SpongeBob Squarepants 400 on May 9th. They were excited to attend the race and festivities, hoping for the lucky chance to get an autograph from Jeff Gordon in his final season. “I’ve been a NASCAR fan since ...

11 years ago
Due to weather concerns, today's lunchtime Art a la Carte performance has been moved from Cambell Plaza to the Stiefel Theatre in downtown Salina. According to Salina Arts and Humanities,  Musician/Storyteller Thad Beach will perform from 12:20pm to 12:50pm inside the Watson Room at the Stiefel, 151 S. Santa Fe. Admission is free and the audience is ...

11 years ago
Fort Hays State University plans to offer its first doctoral degree, beginning in September. The school said in a news release that it will offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice through its Department of Nursing in the College of Health and Life Sciences. The college dean, Jeff Briggs, said it will be a clinical doctorate rather ...

11 years ago
Roads and highways will be busy around Kansas this Memorial Day Weekend. AAA Kansas projects 37.2 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a 4.7 percent increase over last year and the highest volume since 2005. Nearly eighty-nine percent of travelers, 33 million, will travel by automobile, ...

11 years ago
Family and friends said goodbye to a longtime Salina area educator, volunteer, and friend. Jerry Dyck was laid to rest Thursday morning. Mr. Dyck was well known to many people who grew up in Salina in the late 1960s through the early 1990s. He was the principal of Sunset Elementary for 27 years, from 1967 t0 ...

11 years ago
The House has approved a bill that would give Kansas' secretary of state the power to prosecute election fraud. The chamber's 67-55 vote Thursday sends the measure to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has sought prosecutorial authority on election fraud cases since taking office in 2011. He has also authored state laws ...