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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has revealed a new website aimed at increasing the public’s involvement with Kansas missing persons cases. The new missing persons website can be viewed at www.kbi.ks.gov/missingpersons. Unlike several national or non-profit missing person sites, the search tool is specific to missing person cases that originated in Kansas. The website provides a ...

6 years ago
The Secret Service will be the topic of discussion at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. According to the facility, the next Evenings at Ease program is Tuesday, October 8, at 7 p.m. in the Visitors Center Auditorium of the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene. This program is free and open to the public. A sign-language ...

6 years ago
After a brief escape from her enclosure Monday morning, the Ralph Mitchell Zoo’s cougar was captured on zoo grounds and returned without incident or injury. It is believed the cougar squeezed through a small opening created in her enclosure fence when a portion of sandstone broke free from the natural bluff in her exhibit. The Independence, Kansas, ...

6 years ago
The Drug Enforcement Administration is reopening an office in Southwest Kansas. According to the agency, they will reopen their Garden City office. DEA officials closed the office two years ago, but are reopening it due to a rise in drug trafficking and drug-related violence in the area. Six new agents will relocate to Garden City within ...

6 years ago
Ticket sales are underway  for the 5th annual Every Child Matters Dinner in Salina.  According to the Child Advocacy and Parenting Services agency, the evening aims to connect the community to child abuse prevention and intervention work completed by CAPS staff in eight programs. The featured speaker is Darrell Scott, the founder of the Rachel’s Challenge ...

6 years ago
A traffic stop leads to a couple of arrests following an alleged shop lifting incident at Walmart on Sunday morning just before noon. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that a deputy identified the orange, Chevy Silverado that was reported leaving the scene and made a stop on I-135 near the Old 40 interchange. The ...

6 years ago
A Salina man was taken into custody after he allegedly rammed into his estranged girlfriend's car with his vehicle. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 28-year-old Maxwell Thille was following the woman's car Sunday evening when she parked in the 700 block of Cedar Creek Drive around 7:40pm. Police say he hit the right passenger ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office reports that a suspected child abduction incident near a rural bus stop Friday has been determined as an innocent misunderstanding by an 11-year-old boy. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the wife of a newspaper carrier heard media reports about a man in a dark car in the area and ...

6 years ago
A Kansas City area school district is planning to sue an e-cigarette manufacturer. The Olathe school board voted Friday to authorize a lawsuit against Juul and its retailers and distributors on the argument that using the products poses a health risk to students. District officials call vaping an epidemic and add that the district is taking the ...

6 years ago
A runner is dead after being struck by lightning in southeastern Kansas. Officials say 33-year-old Thomas Stanley of Andover was competing in the FlatRock 50k at Elk City State Park on Saturday when he was struck by lightning near the finish line. Stanley died from his injuries. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Stanley's family.

6 years ago
The 2019 Salina Reads selection, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann, centers on the Osage community in 1920s Oklahoma. To further discussion of the book, Matt Jarvis will present “Osage Indians Represented in Literature” at 3 p.m. Oct. 5 in Salina Public Library’s Prescott ...