11 years ago
A family is awakened by their dog, and escapes a fire that destroyed their rural Dickinson County home early Friday morning. Officials tell KSAL News that Dickinson County Fire District 1 responded to a report of a fully involved house fire at 4:00 Friday morning. The house was located at 2672 Oat Road. The occupants of the ...

11 years ago
Riley County police say they've arrested three people in connection to an ongoing investigation into cocaine and methamphetamine distribution. Police say they made the arrests on Tuesday and Wednesday in Manhattan. They seized nearly 54 grams of meth, nearly 5 grams of cocaine and 37 meth hydrochloride pills. About $2,000 in cash and a ...

11 years ago
A terminally ill man given only months to live has escorted his daughter down the wedding aisle in Kansas, after his family and friends scrambled to arrange the ceremony. Jeff Petty suffers from a cancer called renal cell carcinoma. The disease has spread to his bones and is too advanced for chemotherapy treatment. In June, his ...

11 years ago
A man suspected of a theft from a Salina business is caught on video. According to Salina Police, on Sunday a male suspect entered the lot of Superior Plumbing at 1645 Copper Court and removed several items. Items taken include scrap copper, a 9 mm handgun, 100 rounds 9 mm ammunition, and 1,500 rounds of .22 caliber long range ammunition. ...

11 years ago
A new Visual Arts Coordinator is on the job with Salina Arts and Humanities. According to the agency, Grace Peterson has been selected as the agency’s new Visual Arts Coordinator. Anative of Parker, Colorado, Peterson holds a BFA with an emphasis in sculpture from the University of Kansas. She also has a degree in applied arts ...

11 years ago
A teen from Assaria will be sentenced in September for the 2010 shooting death of his young stepbrother. Ryan Velez, now 18-years-old, was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for second-degree murder. Instead, he will be sentenced in September. Velez, who was 14-years-old at the time, shot and killed 9-year-old Kaden Harper in June of 2010 at ...

11 years ago
"Like a hurricane." That has been the motto of the Joint Reception Staging Onward Integration team at the Kansas National Guard’s Vigilant Guard 2014, Aug. 4-7, 2014, emergency preparedness exercise, according to Army Maj. Courtney Prewitt. Vigilant Guard is a multi-state emergency response exercise hosted by the Kansas National Guard at Crisis City, Salina, ...

11 years ago
Counterfeit money continues to surface in Salina. For nearly a month, counterfeit bills have been used to make purchases at multiple businesses around Salina. The latest bills to surface include a counterfeit $10 and a counterfeit $20 in deposits on Tuesday and Wednesday at Sunflower Bank on South 9th Street, and at the Bank of Tescott ...

11 years ago
The King and Queen of the Tri Rivers Fair have been crowned. 16-year-old Hannah Henry from the Friendly Valley 4-H Club is the 2014 Tri Rivers Fair Queen, and 18-year-old Jonathan Peuchen, also from the Friendly Valley 4-H Club, is the 2014 Tri Rivers Fair King. Henry is a student at Southeast of Saline High School. ...

11 years ago
A second leading bond-rating agency has downgraded its credit rating for Kansas and cited what it calls the state's "structurally unbalanced budget" following massive personal income tax cuts. Standard & Poor's said Wednesday that it is dropping its rating for Kansas to AA from AA+. The agency also dropped its rating for bonds backed by state ...

11 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is rallying Republican activists to promote what he says is the Kansas economic comeback after the state's primary election showed significant dissent within the GOP. Brownback and other prominent Republicans had a short rally Wednesday morning at the state GOP's headquarters in Topeka. He urged Republicans to get out and spread a ...