11 years ago
A McPherson woman is jailed on a shoplifting charge in Salina. According to Police Captain Chris Trocheck, 30-year-old Challas Wysocki was confronted by staff at Dillard's Clothing Store in the Central Mall, on Wednesday evening at about 6:30pm. Officers later searched her purse and found merchandise taken from Maurices, Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret and JC ...

11 years ago
A newspaper is reporting that email records show David Kensinger, Gov. Sam Brownback's former chief of staff, continues to have influence on the administration even after he became a lobbyist. The Brownback administration disagrees with that contention. The governor said in October he rarely speaks with Kensinger about policy. The Wichita Eagle reports that it requested all ...

11 years ago
The Salina Area United Way is participating in the first nationwide "Red Nose Day" event. On May 21st Red Nose Day will be celebrated across the U.S. for the first time. This campaign is dedicated to raising money for children and young people living in poverty across the world by making people laugh. Red Nose Day was ...

11 years ago
The House has advanced a bill that would give Kansas' secretary of state the power to prosecute election fraud. The chamber gave the measure first-round approval Wednesday. Several lawmakers questioned the necessity of the bill, given the relatively few recorded instances of election fraud. Others expressed concern that the Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach might bring ...

11 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback says he's not drawing clear lines on what he'll accept as the GOP-dominated Kansas Legislature considers backtracking on one of his major economic initiatives. Brownback said Wednesday that such an approach is more helpful as lawmakers work on a plan for raising taxes. They must close a projected $406 million budget shortfall ...

11 years ago
The discovery of a mortar shell at a Salina scrap business prompted an area of Salina Downtown to be blocked off Wednesday afternoon. Division Chief David Turner from the Salina Fire Department told KSAL News at the scene that employees of Salina Iron & Metal at 312 N. 5th Street made the discovery at around 1:30 ...

11 years ago
Four of five teenagers accused of conspiring to carry out a shooting at Hutchison High School have pleaded not guilty in juvenile court. The Hutchinson News reports three of the suspects denied the charges in court Tuesday, while a fourth suspect previously denied the charges in writing. The fifth suspect is scheduled for a court hearing ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of a small storage shed. The owner told officers a tan, 4-foot by 6-foot, metal shed was removed from a property he had recently purchased in the 600 block of N. Broadway. Police say someone also stole a tool box from the lot sometime between Monday at 5pm and Tuesday at ...

11 years ago
A Clay Center man was hurt late Tuesday when he was ejected from his car as it flipped end-over-end. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 25-year-old Justin Lee Keen was driving a 2006 Pontiac G6, headed north Kansas Highway 15. The car left the road, vaulted a field entrance, and flipped three times front to back. Troopers ...

11 years ago
Security officers have found a loaded handgun in a carry-on bag at Wichita's Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. Local media outlets report a .380 caliber Smith & Wesson Bodyguard firearm was found loaded with six rounds on Monday. Wichita Airport Police took the weapon and interviewed the passenger, who was allowed to continue on his flight. The ...

11 years ago
The Kansas Legislature continues to wrestle with a mix of proposals and ideas as discussions continue on ways to shore up the state budget. Salina Representative J.R. Claeys tells KSAL News that everything is still on the table. "It becomes kind of a mishmash of proposals," he said. Recent plans in play would turn the clock back ...