8 months ago
A Salina student is the recipient of a unique, local scholarship. This year’s Cash Hollistah Scholarship recipient is William Bohrer. Bohrer, a senior at Salina Central High School, has a 4.0 GPA, and has been involved with the Salina Symphony and the Salina Art Center as an attendant and occasional teacher. He is a member of ...

8 months ago
A disturbance outside a Salina fast food joint leads to the arrest of a Atchinson man. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that 25-year-old Nico Munson was taken into custody on Sunday evening around 5pm after an argument outside McDonald's on E. Diamond Drive turned violent. Police say Munson became aggressive during a child custody exchange ...

8 months ago
A Beloit man turns himself in to police after allegedly taking a stack of cash from a woman's purse. According to Police Captain Jim Feldman, a 71-year old woman from Abilene was shopping at Menard's and put her purse down in the lumber aisle to look at an item. Moments later she went to pick it ...

8 months ago
A Saline County man was arrested after allegedly hitting his father in the head with a sledgehammer. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 41-year-old Steven H. Weis was arrested on Friday morning after an argument at a rural home turned violent. Deputies report that the 69-year-old victim was in the yard, bleeding and going ...

8 months ago
An escaped inmate from the Wichita Work Release Facility is back in custody. Authorities say 42-year-old Royce Timmons was reported missing on Saturday night when he could not be found at the minimum-security unit. Timmons was arrested yesterday morning after surrendering himself at the facility. He was sentenced in Sedgwick County to 29 months in jail for criminal ...

8 months ago
Salina Police are investigating a vehicle burglary case after a handgun was stolen from a car. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that a 34-year-old woman contacted authorities after discovering her 2007 Nissan Murano had been entered and items were stolen while the car was parked in the 100 block of N. 7th Street. Police say ...

8 months ago
A student from Salina is among studenrs on the Kansas State University Concrete Canoe team who took first place at a regional competition at the Mid-America Student Symposium in Lincoln, Nebraska. The win at the regional event for the American Society of Civil Engineers, or ASCE, gives the K-State team the opportunity to compete at the ...

9 months ago
A pilot was killed when a small airplane crashed in rural Ellsworth County Sunday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 77-year-old Ronnie Thompson of Goddard was flying a Piper fixed wing aircraft.  He was flying from Lucas  to Wichita, when for no apparent reason the plane went down. Thompson, who was flying solo, was killed in ...

9 months ago
She inspired a fashion trend in the 1980s as “Daisy Duke”, one of the stars of comedy television series “The Dukes of Hazzard”, which was focused around the hijinks of the Duke family and their classic car. This summer she’s coming to Salina, along with many classic cars. Catherine Bach will be a part of ...

9 months ago
It took a little longer than anticipated to finally open because they wanted to make sure everything was "just right". The anticipated Jose Pepper’s Tex-Mex restaurant in Downtown Salina opened in late April, and already is a big hit. Originally founded in Kansas City, including the new Salina restaurant , there are now a dozen Jose ...

9 months ago
Families are invited to bring their children ages 4-16, and bicycles, to the first annual Salina Bike Rodeo. The event is planned for this coming Saturday, May 10th. The event will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the City Lights Stage in downtown Salina and is free for all participants. The Bike Rodeo ...