5 years ago
Guns, drugs, and drug money were all taken off the streets this week by the I 135 / I 70 Drug Task Force. According to police, since February of 2021, the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force has been conducting drug distribution investigations on individuals located in Salina. During the course of the investigation they identified three individuals ...

5 years ago
A couple of Salina men are in jail after a high speed pursuit that ended in a foot chase. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 29-year-old Adrian Richardson and 33-year-old Anthony Wonder are facing multiple charges after fleeing officers on Thursday night. The chase began around 11:30pm after an officer on patrol attempted to make ...

5 years ago
Salina Police are asking for the public's' help in locating a man who allegedly fired a gun during a recent road rage incident. The case is this week's Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. According to police, on June 29th at 12:18 AM officers were dispatched to the 700 block of South Ohio Street to ...

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A toddler is dead following an apparent drowning incident yesterday afternoon in Sedgwick County. Local first responders say the call came in around 3:30 p.m. about the incident on West 21st Street. Responding EMS personnel said the three-year-old boy had drowned in an above-ground pool. Efforts to revive the child reportedly were unsuccessful. An investigation into the incident ...

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A former Kearney educator and his wife are dead after their plane crashed Wednesday afternoon in Iowa. According to Musacatine County officials, 68-year-old Daniel Slack and 69-year-old Sharon Slack had been headed back to their home in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, before the crash. A local sheriff said the wreckage of the single-engine Piper Cherokee was found ...

5 years ago
The pond at Salina’s Jerry Ivey Park is among 10 bodies of water in Kansas now under a public health warning. Additionally, another 15 are under a watch. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism has issued public health advisories for four Kansas lakes and ...

5 years ago
Officials in Pawnee County continue to search for a convicted sexual predator who walked out of the Larned State Hospital on June 30th. According to the Pawnee County Sheriff's Office,  42-year-old John Freeman Colt shaved his head to disguise his appearance before walking out of the hospital's Sexual Predator Treatment Program shortly after dawn on June ...

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A man from Texas is in the Saline County Jail after leading deputies on a short chase Thursday. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 35-year-old James B. Daigle was booked into jail on multiple charges that include DUI plus flee and elude. Around 1:40am, a deputy on patrol initiated a traffic stop after seeing Daigle ...

5 years ago
Salina Police are looking for someone who stole a pickup and tried to use it to break into an ATM. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that about 4:15am Thursday, an alarm sounded at the Great Plains Bank at 605 S. Ohio. Officers saw visible damage to the ATM and a yellow tow strap and ...

5 years ago
No one was injured in a house fire near Bridgeport Wednesday night. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that about 10:30pm crews from Rural Fire District #3 were sent to 11300 S. Old 81 Highway to the report of an active house fire. Deputies say everyone was able to exit the dwelling as smoke poured ...

5 years ago
On a warm Saturday morning in mid-July, a crowd gathered on the lawn outside of Fort Hays State University’s Kansas Wetlands Education Center to listen to author Mandy Kern read from her newly published children’s book, Ava: A Year of Adventure in the Life of an American Avocet. A former science teacher and current FHSU Program Specialist ...