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The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a body is found in a wooded area in South Salina. Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that the family of a 32-year-old Salina man is still being contacted before the identity will be released. The body had a rope around its neck, which was tied to ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas sheriff is alerting the public to a hoax phone call demanding ransom to spare the life of a loved one. The Johnson County sheriff's office says deputies were contacted this week by a resident who was on the phone with someone claiming to be holding the resident's brother hostage. Authorities said the caller claimed ...

12 years ago
A Kansas man accused of attacking a prosecutor after a judge upheld his life sentence for a child sex crime will be tried in June on a charge of attempted premeditated murder. KWBW Radio reports 27-year-old Michael Sherman, of Hutchinson pleaded not guilty to charge at his arraignment Wednesday. A Reno County judge then scheduled his ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas man has been found guilty of killing a woman to keep her from providing information to federal law enforcement officers about his involvement in drug trafficking. The U.S. attorney's office says a federal jury on Thursday convicted 32-year-old Marcus D. Roberson of Junction City of murder, conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and conspiracy ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court will release its ruling on a state school finance lawsuit Friday, ending months of speculation about whether the state has to increase spending for public schools. The court announced Thursday that the ruling would be issued Friday morning. The lawsuit was filed in 2010 by attorneys representing four school districts and ...

12 years ago
Guns and electronics are stolen from a Salina home. Police are investigating a residential burglary after someone forced open a door on a home in the 200 block of S. 10th and removed three guns and video games. Police say thieves entered the home sometime Wednesday between 1:50am and 2pm and took an AR-15 rifle, Mossberg 12-gauge ...

12 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary in Gypsum. Deputies were called to the 500 block of King Street in Gypsum after someone entered an unlocked woodshop that stands behind a home and removed numerous tools. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that a Craftsman brand circular saw in a custom made wood carrying case ...

12 years ago
A Salina man is jailed on charges of indecent liberties with a girl under the age of fifteen. Police arrested 22-year-old Ramiro Arroyo-Molina of Salina after the Department of Children and Family Services contacted authorities. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, Molina had consensual sexual relations with the girl dating back to March of 2013. He was identified as ...

12 years ago
A woman who was sentenced to prison for her part in the deaths of her husband and the wife of a minister with whom she had an affair is no longer under state supervision. The Kansas Department of Corrections says Lorna Anderson was released from parole supervision on Feb. 17. She was released from prison in 2007 ...

12 years ago
A 29-year-old Kansas hunter videotaped his rescue of a nine-point deer that was antler-locked with another buck that had since died. Wichita bow hunter Evan McAnally used his cellphone Feb. 10 to video himself freeing the buck, which had locked antlers with the other buck several days earlier. Coyotes had eaten the other buck down to ...

12 years ago
Kansas legislators are reopening debate on whether the state should enact special legal protections for people, groups and businesses opposing gay marriage for religious reasons. A Senate panel was taking testimony Thursday from legal scholars on whether existing state laws protect gay-marriage opponents from being fined or sued for refusing to provide goods or services for ...