6 years ago
A Salina South High School graduate has won a Pulitzer Prize. Author and poet Anne Boyer, a creative writing instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute and a breast cancer survivor, won the prestigious award in the General Non-Fiction Category for "The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care".  The ...

6 years ago
Saline County has gone four days in a row without any additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report. The county is holding steady with 21 cases and two deaths. Statewide, though, numbers keep rising. There are now more than 5,200 coronavirus cases in Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported the following in their daily ...

6 years ago
A Lansing Correctional Facility inmate who died Monday, May 4, had tested positive for COVID-19. This is the third death related to COVID-19. The inmate was a male over the age of 50 who tested positive for the virus on May 1. He was transferred to Providence Medical Center on May 1. The official manner of ...

6 years ago
Three juveniles at the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex (KJCC) failed to follow staff instruction and damaged property in their unit on Saturday. Three juvenile offenders housed at KJCC refused to obey the directives of staff and then escalated their behavior by tearing up the officer’s workstation. Desk drawers were broken, electronic equipment damaged, supplies were thrown ...

6 years ago
Monday was day one, of Phase-1 in Governor Laura Kelley's plan to reopen Kansas in a, "gradual and cautious" manner. The plan maps out what businesses can open as long as they adhere to public health guidelines and encourage safe social distancing before Phase-2 can kick in. United States Congressman Roger Marshall joined in the KSAL Morning ...

6 years ago
New cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in Kansas, however, hospitalization and death rates remain flat. The Kansas Department of Health & Environment released the latest information at 9 a.m. Monday and says that there have been 5,245 cases of the disease. Of those cases, 553 have had to be hospitalized, while 136 Kansans have died ...

6 years ago
Damaging severe weather rolled across Central Kansas early Monday morning. Severe storms formed west of the Salina area, and moves northeast. The main threat was large hail and strong wind. Damaging straight line wind in excess of 70 miles per hour was clocked, and hail as large as tennis balls fell in some areas. Some of the heaviest ...

6 years ago
A three-car accident at one of Salina's busiest intersections leads to two citations and a passenger sent to the hospital. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester says that the accident occurred on Friday at 1:10 p.m. at the intersection of Ohio St. and Magnolia Rd. A 2018 Hyundai Elantra driven by 56-year-old Susan Leidig, Salina, and a 2007 ...

6 years ago
An investigation in to stolen sports memorabilia leads to the arrest of two Salina roommates and two others found at the residence in possession of drugs. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that authorities were following up on a burglary that occurred on April 30 at The Arena, 427 S. Broadway Blvd., where $3,035 ...

6 years ago
A single vehicle crash east of Salina lands the driver of the pickup truck behind bars for potential DUI. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the crash occurred at 5 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Old 40 Highway and Marymount Rd. A 1997 Mazda B-2300 pickup truck was traveling westbound on Old 40 ...

6 years ago
Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) Secretary Jeff Zmuda announced today that one staff member working at Ellsworth Correctional Facility (ECF) tested positive for COVID-19. This is the sixth KDOC facility with confirmed cases, including Lansing Correctional Facility, Wichita Work Release Facility, Topeka Correctional Facility, Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex and El Dorado Correctional Facility. The staff member ...