12 years ago
A Salina based regiment will become the first in the Kansas National Guard to be under the command of a woman. According to the Kansas Adjutant General's Office, Lt. Col. Judith D. Martin will take command of the 235th Regiment, Kansas Amy National Guard, in a ceremony this Saturday at the Kansas Regional Training Institute in ...

12 years ago
A judge has ordered the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to remove a man's name from the state's offender registry for sex, drug and violent crimes. Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks ruled Tuesday that a state law passed two years ago extending the amount of time offenders must remain on the registry is punitive. He says ...

12 years ago
A Kansas man faces a municipal court date after he drowned a caged cat in a lake north of Kansas City. A neighbor and two children saw the man drown the cat. He told police he didn't realize the neighbors were watching. Police say the man, whose name was not released, drowned the cat Sunday afternoon in ...

12 years ago
A state board has rejected proposed temporary changes to the Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship for newly registered voters. The change proposed Tuesday by Secretary of State Kris Kobach was in response to a glitch that caused delays to nearly 12,000 voter registration applications. Kansas now requires that new applications to register to vote also ...

12 years ago
A U.S. Senate subcommittee has approved $404 million in federal spending for the construction of a new federal research laboratory at Kansas State University. The vote Tuesday sends the funding for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility to the full Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration. The money is part of the Department of Homeland Security budget ...

12 years ago
A prosecutor told jurors in his opening statement that a Kansas man added chemicals to gunpowder to increase the explosive power of grenades he was making. The government outlined its case against Alfred Dutton, of Eureka, in federal court Tuesday in Wichita. The 67-year-old veteran of both the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines is charged with ...

12 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo went to the dogs on Tuesday. For the first time, visitors were able to see four new African Painted Dogs that are now on permanent display. The dogs are in a newly renovated exhibit. Jesse, Taco, Chuck Norris, and Bruce Lee made their public debut. According to the Painted Dog Conservation organization, Painted Dogs, ...

12 years ago
A dramatic crash where a truck flips sends two people to the hospital Tuesday morning. The crash happened on Centennial Road. It involved a mini-van and a full sized pickup truck. Salina Police Officer James Miller tells KSAL News that the two vehicles were approaching one another, coming in opposite directions. The van swerved left of ...

12 years ago
Salina City Commissioners met in a special session Tuesday morning to discuss a proposal to respond to the county regarding the Salina-Saline County Health Department Commissioners ultimately approved a resolution affirming that they want to work together in negotiating a new inter-local agreement. As a compromise, they think the best course of action now is to ...

12 years ago
Police are investigating a an alleged theft. Ferco Rental, located at 264 S Broadway, reports the theft of five pendant cables, cables used for crane booms. Reports say that the cables were taken from Ferco's equipment block on Armory Rd. sometime between June 15 and July 15 and that the cables are valued at a total of ...

12 years ago
The state has rejected a request that it change the way coyotes can be hunted during deer firearms season. The law enforcement arm of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism had asked the agency's Board of Tourism to ban coyote hunters from using two-way radios and hunting from vehicles during regular deer ...