6 years ago
Investigators with the Salina Police Department continue to unravel several different strands of a check fraud scheme in Salina and the surrounding area. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the First United Methodist Church, 122 N. 8th contacted authorities this week about five fraudulent checks that were written for a total of $9,000. Police say the ...

6 years ago
McPherson College has raised $10.5 million toward its Building Community Campaign, a comprehensive funding campaign that launched during Homecoming on October 12. The centerpiece of the $20 million campaign is a proposed new student center. Starting the campaign with more than 50 percent of the goal raised is unprecedented in the college’s campaign history. As part ...

6 years ago
A portion of Santa Fe in Downtown Salina which re-opened a couple of weeks ago will temporarily closed today to allow for the fourth of four overhead structures to be put in place According to the city of Salina, Santa Fe Avenue from Iron Street to Walnut Street will be closed to erect the new overhead ...

6 years ago
Three local artists will be featured in Salina Presbyterian Manor’s annual Art is Ageless juried competition 2020 Art is Ageless calendar.  The Calendar is produced by PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America). “Midsummer Day,” a painting by Eva Lankhorst, “Batik on Ginwashi Paper,” a mixed media/craft entry by Salina Presbyterian Manor resident Don Lloyd, and “Poinsettia & ...

6 years ago
Sacred Heart student, Gabby Rodriguez, continues to excel in the classroom. According to social media, the senior student at Sacred Heart was recently recognized by the National College Board as a National Hispanic Scholar. Rodriguez took the Preliminary SAT last fall with 400,000 other students across the United States. Results from the standardized test show that Rodriguez ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a string of vehicle burglaries northwest of Salina. Deputies say sometime between midnight and 1am on Tuesday morning, someone entered four unlocked vehicles that were parked near four homes north of I-70 on Hedville Road. A stolen wallet was recovered in a nearby ditch but was missing a Lowe's card ...

6 years ago
Authorities continue to follow an electronic trail left by thieves in a check forging scheme that has snared a number of Salina businesses. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officials at Kansas Wesleyan University contacted investigators after they learned that sixteen forged checks were cashed across the country in the amount of $44,000. UMB Bank ...

6 years ago
A police dog named Karma helped sniff out a drug runner with 98-packages of marijuana in his vehicle. A traffic stop near I-135 led to a drug related arrest early Wednesday morning. According to Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan, a deputy on patrol stopped an SUV after the driver failed to make a stop on the ...

6 years ago
A couple of former KSAL staffers will be inducted into the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame this weekend. Rick Mach and Dave "Lewis" Guthals will both be bestowed the honor. The Kansas Association of Broadcasters was formed in1951, to support broadcasters in the state so that they might better represent the public. In 1969 ...

6 years ago
A mid-August kayak trip down the Arkansas River in southcentral Kansas took a fascinating turn for sisters Ashley and Erin Watt when they happened upon a massive skull protruding from a sandbar. It was partially buried nose down, but they immediately knew the shape was unique. When they pulled it from the sand and saw ...

6 years ago
A Dickinson County woman was killed in a crash involving a pickup truck and a semi on a rural Kansas highway. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was headed east on State Lake Road in rural Geary County. The pickup entered US 77 Highway and was struck on the driver's ...