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OCCK Transportation is recognizing  pleased recipients of the 2021 Driver Safety Recognition Awards.  The organization honored 37 drivers with more than 166 years of safe driving. According to OCCK,  their Transportation Division Safe Driver Recognition and Award Program is designed to distinguish and honor OCCK Transportation drivers who have proven their skill in avoiding accidents and ...

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A Salina man has been arrested after he was discovered inside a vacant home Monday afternoon. Nicholas Reimonenq, 29, has been charged with single counts of burglary, theft and interference with a law enforcement officer. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers responded to a residence in the 200 block of S. Eighth St. at ...

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A man is facing charges after a domestic incident Sunday night. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that at 9:45 p.m., officers responded to reports of a domestic disturbance involving a firearm in the 2400 block of Drake Place. The 43-year-old male victim told officers that his father, 75-year-old Daniel Baffa, pointed a shotgun at ...

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A Salina woman is on the search for her vehicle after it was stolen Sunday night. Amanda Hubbard was working a shift at the Casey's General Store at 1100 E. Iron Avenue. She left the store at 10 p.m. to go to her vehicle and then returned to work. When she returned to the parking lot ...

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A house is struck by gunfire in Maize. Police were called to the Hunter's Glen neighborhood early yesterday morning and found a home in the 700-block of South Longbranch that had been struck several times by gunfire. No one was injured in the incident, which is under investigation.

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A convicted killer is headed to prison in southeastern Kansas. Thirty-year-old Mark Hopkins the Second has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2020 deaths of Blaze Swank and Kylan Shook. The murders took place in June 2020 in Cherokee County. Hopkins pleaded guilty last month to two counts of premeditated first-degree murder in the case.

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The number of COVID-19 cases in Kansas is on the rise. Officials reported 69-hundred-39 new cases over the holiday weekend, bringing the total in the state to 512-thousand-461. Fourteen additional COVID-19 deaths were confirmed, and the state has seen 69-hundred-64 COVID-19 deaths overall.

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He's headed to the Texas Bowl to watch the Wildcats and Tigers from LSU. KSAL's 'Superfan' Clarke Sanders says there is still room on the bus trip to Houston to watch Kansas State play Tuesday, January 4th at NRG Stadium. Clarke joined in on the KSAL Morning News Extra and says the bus trip includes a choice ...

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A southwest Kansas woman is dead following yesterday's single-vehicle crash in southwest Kansas. State troopers say 20-year-old Brittney Marie Turley was a passenger in a 2014 Dodge pickup when it veered over the center line on Kansas Highway 1 in Comanche County around 3:35 a.m. and slammed into a concrete barrier. The Coldwater resident was rushed to ...

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A family friendly event will allow Salina to ring in New Year’s Eve early on December 31st. The annual "Noon Year’s Eve" event is scheduled at the Tony’s Pizza Events Center. The “Noon Year’s Eve” is a free event for the whole family. It will feature music with crafts, a bounce house, face painting, and more. At ...

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Salina Police have located a driver who they believe was involved in hit and run accident that left a pedestrian critically injured on Christmas Eve. Police say  with the public’s help on Christmas Day the vehicle and driver involved in the hit and run accident were located. The victim remains in critical but stable condition at Via Christi ...