12 years ago
Documentary filmmaker and storyteller Audrey Kalivoda is coming back to Salina with a look at her new project. Kalivoda will be on hand at the Smoky Hill Museum on Thursday afternoon for her presentation of the making of "Kansas: The Center of it All" Kalivoda joined in on the KSAL Morning News Wednesday and says the film ...

12 years ago
A refrigerator is stolen from a vacant rental home. Larry Mattison of New Cambria contacted the Saline County Sheriff's Office after discovering a GE side by side refrigerator was removed from a property he oversees and rents out in the 3000 block of E. Old 40 Highway. Deputies say someone stole the appliance sometime between Monday and ...

12 years ago
A burglar is chased away from a Salina business. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a maintenance person at All-Star Lanes, 624 S. Broadway, confronted a burglar early Wednesday morning just before 5am. Police are looking for a white male who pried open a door at the bowling alley and then tried to open the safe. The ...

12 years ago
One person is hurt in a single-vehicle rollover crash west of Salina Wednesday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, first responders were called to a crash on Interstate 70, about 3 miles west of Interstate 135. They found a small SUV on its top, in the median. Troopers say that 59-year-old Samuel Shannon of Denver was ...

12 years ago
A suspected burglar is caught on video. According to Salina Police, on March 31st at approximately 2:30 in the monring the unknown suspect in the video was observed exiting a business in the area of the 900 block of East Prescott. Several business burglaries were reported in the area. If you can identify the person in ...

12 years ago
The company that hired a Colorado man who died when he hit a toll plaza on the Kansas Turnpike says it appears the man was asleep at the wheel. However, The Kansas Highway Patrol says the cause of the accident is still under investigation. Thirty-year-old Sergiy Angelchev of Auroro, Colo., died Saturday when his ...

12 years ago
A statewide group seeking to legalize marijuana in Kansas has launched a petition drive in Wichita to remove criminal penalties for possessing an ounce or less of the substance. Members of the group Kansas for Change told City Council members Tuesday they would be back with at least 4,300 verified signatures on the petitions. It will ...

12 years ago
Federal and state agriculture officials are setting 568 traps across Kansas to detect and prevent the spread of the emerald ash borer. The beetle has killed millions of ash trees since it was first discovered in North America in 2002. In Kansas, it was found in Wyandotte County in 2012 and Johnson County in 2013. Kansas is ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Senate has rejected a proposal to keep concealed guns out of libraries and local community centers. Senators considered Kansas City Democrat Pat Pettey's proposal Tuesday before giving first-round approval to a bill stripping cities and counties of their power to regulate guns. Pettey offered her proposal as an amendment. The Senate rejected it on a ...

12 years ago
Federal election officials are asking a federal judge to stay his order that the agency help Kansas and Arizona enforce state laws requiring voters to prove their U.S. citizenship. The court filing Monday comes after U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren ruled on March 19 that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission should immediately modify a national voter ...

12 years ago
A Kansas House committee has approved a bill declaring that the federal government has no authority to regulate prairie chickens or their habitat in the state. The measure is a response to the federal government's listing last week of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species. Members of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee approved ...