8 years ago
The Greater Salina Community Foundation has awarded its final grants for the 2018 fiscal year. Three organizations received funding from the L.P. “Pat” Mullen Fund. Recipients include: Salina Public Schools, $3,640 for a seven-week summer reading program at Schilling Elementary School. Salina Area Technical College, $2,325 to host SATC Summer Camp, focused on electrical, welding, diesel ...

8 years ago
A Salina man was taken into custody shortly after calling police with a bomb threat at a local restaurant. Officers arrested 35-year-old Michael Norris about 10-minutes after he allegedly used his cell phone to warn authorities about the fake threat at Taco Bell on Monday afternoon. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers arrived at the ...

8 years ago
Family and friends are looking for a missing Riley County woman. Kansas Missing and Unsolved tells KSAL News 30-year-old Ashley Meiss went missing from Ogden on Saturday. She was last seen at 6:15 in the evening. Anyone with information on Ashley Meiss's disappearance, or who knows where she might be, is asked to contact Riley County Police ...

8 years ago
More than a dozen protestors are arrested after occupying a room in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office in Topeka. The 18 people who were arrested were part of the Poor People's Campaign, which has protested against Kobach's positions on immigration and voter identification. The arrested protestors were booked into the Shawnee County Jail on ...

8 years ago
It's the end of an era at Salina South High School. The pod classrooms, which the school became known for when it opened in 1971, are going away. Friday was the last day of classes for students in the pods, while teachers finished on Monday. As part of a voter approved bond project South is undergoing ...

8 years ago
A threat prompted a brief evacuation of a Salina business Monday afternoon. Salina Police tell KSAL News that officers responded to the Taco Bell restaurant at the corner pf Iron and Ohio to the report of a bomb threat. As a precaution the building was evacuated, and the parking lot was blocked off at both entrances. After ...

8 years ago
A Salina organization is among a dozen from around the state receiving special Seed Grants. This is the sixth year Volunteer Kansas has awarded organizations in the $500 Seed Grants. According to the organization, these mini grants are intended to support service projects that will engage volunteers and increase volunteerism. This year’s winners include: RSVP of Northeast ...

8 years ago
Volunteers are not giving up in their search for a missing Wichita boy. Five-year-old Lucas Hernandez was reported missing from his family's Wichita home in February. Members of the group Kansas Search Investigation say they have their core team take part in active searches for Hernandez every day. Officials did not reveal the location of yesterday's search effort.

8 years ago
A homeless man wanted on warrants from Mitchell County is apprehended after running across I-135 Saturday. Salina Police arrested 27-year-old Anthony Sibley on Saturday around noon time after he ran from an off-duty officer. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the officer observed Sibley walking in the parking lot in front of Dick's Sporting Goods, 2450 ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of an enclosed stock trailer from a property just east of Rolling Hills Zoo. Deputies say sometime Friday between 7:30am and about 2pm, someone lifted a gate off the hinges on a fenced in property in the 3600 block of W. Stimmel Road and hauled off the ...

8 years ago
As part of a nation wide effort to encourage drivers to buckle up - Salina Police will be out in force beginning today through June 3, looking for seat belt violations. Police tell  KSAL News that extra officers will be on patrol looking for drivers and occupants who are not buckled up. Citations for unrestrained adults are ...