11 years ago
A student housing project at Bethany College in Lindsborg is underway. Increasing enrollment at the school has caused officials to scramble for accomodations. The school is leasing space at two nearby motels, the Coronado Motel and the Viking Motel, for student housing. A more long-term solution is a new residence hall. That project began this week. According to the ...

11 years ago
Authorities are looking for one or more intruders who they say broke into the Wichita home of a 100-year-old woman and sexually assaulted her. Police told reporters Friday that the victim walked to a neighbor's house Tuesday morning, saying there were two people inside her home. The woman told police she was awakened during the night ...

11 years ago
A budget shortfall predicted for Kansas for July 2016 has grown to $260 million after tax collections fell short of expectations during the past three months. The previous figure from the Legislature's nonpartisan research staff was $238 million. But researchers noted that tax collections in July, August and September fell a total of $22 million short ...

11 years ago
Independent Greg Orman has released a plan that he says would create a better climate for small businesses. The U.S. Senate candidate says his proposal seeks to spur investment, streamline regulations and reform student loans to create a skilled work force. The plan was unveiled Friday as Orman toured small businesses across central Kansas. In Wichita, ...

11 years ago
A warrant sweep by the Saline County Sheriff's Office nets nine arrests. Four, 2-man teams of deputies had 33 warrants in hand on Thursday evening as they traveled around the county knocking on doors, double checking addresses trying to find citizens who have civil and district court warrants. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that they have ...

11 years ago
Sheriff deputies and game wardens arrest a couple of men illegally hunting early Friday morning. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, at around 1:30 in the morning a Kansas Game Warden and deputies with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department made a stop on some spot lighters, or hunters using off-road vehicles and ...

11 years ago
A mother calls police after she learns about a man assaulting her daughter. Police arrested 43-year-old Basil Scott McNelly of Salina on one charge of rape, battery and indecent liberties with a child. Police say the mother of a 9-year-old girl contacted SPD on Thursday after learning of the abuse that allegedly took place in a south ...

11 years ago
Volleyball and basketball players at Washburn University can now call a 7-year-old girl their teammate. Karis Selk is now an honorary member of Washburn University's volleyball and women's basketball teams. She's also in her first year of remission from pediatric brain cancer. Selk signed her name in pink pen during a letter-of-intent signing ...

11 years ago
Three years after a 10-month-old girl disappeared from her Kansas City home, her family and police say they continue to search for the child known as Baby Lisa. Lisa Irwin disappeared on Oct. 4, 2011. Although her case drew national attention and an offer of a $100,000 reward, the girl has never been found and few ...

11 years ago
Emporia police say they don't suspect foul play in the death of a man who was found in a men's restroom at the police department. A man identified as 58-year-old Mario Padron was found around 9 a.m. Thursday after officers were notified of an unresponsive person in the restroom. Police say Padron was not a city employee ...

11 years ago
A Salina man was killed in a rollover accident southwest of Salina Thursday evening. First responders were called at around 9:15pm to the area of Fairchilds Road and Farrelly Road to the report of a rollover accident. The Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that 33-year-old David Erik Spencer was pronounced dead at the scene ...