4 years ago
Interim Healthcare and Hospice and the Saline County Sheriff’s Department will be collecting expired, unwanted or unused drugs during a DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) Drug Take Back Day later this month. The Drug Take-Back Day is meant to collect and safely destroy medications. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse. ...

4 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is looking into a Thursday burglary at a rural residence north of Brookville. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that between 5:30 a.m. and 1:40 p.m., a home at 11360 W. Stimmel Road belonging to a 63-year-old man was believed to have been burglarized. A door to the house appeared to be ...

4 years ago
A local family is asking for help as their 11-year-old son is battling heart complications. A GoFundMe account has been set up. His mother, Ashlie Benson, has told KSAL the following: My son Jordan is 11 years old and has had five open heart surgeries and countless heart catheterizations and procedures through the years. His most recent ...

4 years ago
Police are seeking tips in a case involving a theft from a Salina fitness center. The crime is the latest Salina Crimestoppers crime of the week. Police say on Monday of this week at approximately 4:24 PM officers were sent to Planet Fitness at 2012 S. Ohio regarding a stolen vehicle. The victim reported while they ...

4 years ago
Alumni, family and the Salina community are being  welcomed to Kansas Wesleyan. The university's Spring Alumni, Family & Community Weekend is here. The event began Thursday and goes through Sunday. Spring Alumni, Family & Community Weekend kicked off Thursday as the Student Exhibition and Senior Showcase continues in The Gallery.  KWU also hosted a reception in the ...

4 years ago
Kansas drops a few notches this week from its near-pole position with respect to low gas prices. As reported by Triple-A on Thursday, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded stood at three-78, compared to yesterday's national-average figure of four-12. The nation's cheapest gas can be found in Arkansas, where yesterday's average price sat at ...

4 years ago
A statement by Salina Emergence Aid Food Bank Executive Director Karen Couch at a Thursday Project Salina kickoff event summed up the mood of the day. She said "hunger is not a choice, but sharing food is." A group of motivated Salinans gathered to rally, and kick-off the 2022 Project Salina effort. Salina's annual largest organized ...

4 years ago
Kansas State University is adding a new cyber security degree option. According to the school, the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, with recent approval from the Kansas Board of Regents, will add cybersecurity as its 13th Bachelor of Science degree program Offered through the computer science department, the curriculum of 120 credit ...

4 years ago
The Dollar General store in downtown Salina is relocating and expanding to a first of its kind in Kansas DG Market. According to the company, the current downtown Salina store located at 140 South Santa Fe is moving to 511 East Iron Avenue, a building which was originally a grocery store. The move will be complete ...

4 years ago
A Salina couple is hoping police find their moped and the thief who stole it. According to Captain Paul Forrester, sometime Wednesday between 9am and 5pm someone rolled away with their 2014 Bronc Rally moped that was parked near their front porch in the 1000 block of E. Iron. Police say the once green vehicle - was ...

4 years ago
An arrest has been made in connection with a Wednesday morning murder in Salina. According to Salina Police, Wednesday morning an arrest warrant was issued for Anthony Quentin Lopez-Garcia by Saline County District Court, for the charges of First Degree Murder and Criminal Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. Wednesday afternoon  a Kansas City, Missouri ...