3 years ago
A Salina Man with an active warrant for his arrest is now facing drug charges. Captain Gary Hanus of the Salina Police Department tells KSAL Staff that Odell Wilson a 55-year-old was spotted Wednesday by a patrol officer on Westport Boulevard at Americas Best Value Inn. Knowing Wilson had a warrant the officer made contact and ...

3 years ago
A man from northeast Kansas was booked into jail in Salina Wednesday. Requested charges include 2 counts of criminal trespass and theft. Captian Gary Hanus of the Salina Police Department tells KSAL News that this has been an ongoing case. Earlier this month the City of Salina had noticed someone had been driving a specific vehicle on ...

3 years ago
A 16-year-old Salina South Student was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly making a bomb threat at Salina South High. Captain Gary Hanus of the Salina Police Department tells KSAL Staff that a school resource officer conducted an investigation on Wednesday. A school staff member had reported to the resource officer that the 16-year-old male had made ...

3 years ago
A 60 year old man is not injured after striking and killing two horses outside of Gypsum Wednesday morning. Sheriff Rodger Soldan of the Saline County Sheriff's office tells KSAL that two horses were struck in the roadway on K-4 highway around 5:50 on Wednesday morning. Edward Conway a 60-year-old man from gypsum was heading west ...

3 years ago
The Smoky Hill Museum is ready to celebrate the first weekend of fall with a party. The organization's street fair event is planned for Saturday. The Smoky Hill Museum Street Fair has no entry cost and is a day to celebrate the Old West with a chili cook-off, music, activities, food vendors and, of course, the ...

3 years ago
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina has launched two new mentoring programs, Beyond School Walls and Corporate Bigs. The organization says Beyond School Walls is a program aimed at developing the next generation of employees through one-to-one mentoring relationships. The program, which is part of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America’s national initiative, launched September 8 ...

3 years ago
Welcome fall. Thursday officially ushers in autumn. The autumnal equinox officially brings the fall season to the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday at 8:03 PM. It marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in the Southern Hemisphere. The equinox is the moment when the sun shines directly on the earth’s equator and equally ...

3 years ago
A Manhattan woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash in northern Kansas late Wednesday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol,  71-year-old Anne Nielson of Manhattan was driving a Volkswagon Beetle headed south on K 148 Highway. She failed to stop at a stop sign and was struck by a Ford F 350 pickup truck which ...

3 years ago
After being limited the past couple of years by the pandemic, the Fall Apple Day Festival returns to Fort Riley this weekend. The festival, which is free and open to the public, is the largest annual event at Fort Riley and serves as the military installation’s open house.  The festival is Saturday from 9 a.m. ...

3 years ago
An eighth person on the latest list of Salina's Most Wanted has been caught. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, John Joseph Vogel is the latest person on the list caught, He was wanted for  felony drug crimes. The first weekend of each month a new list of Salina’s most wanted is released. Those on the September ...

3 years ago
An inmate at a Kansas prison was found dead. According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, El Dorado Correctional Facility inmate Cody James Torbol died Tuesday. He was found unresponsive in his cell Tuesday evening. Staff began life-saving measures immediately and continued after emergency medical services arrived. Mr. Torbol was pronounced deceased by medical staff. The cause of ...