8 years ago
An intoxicated Salina man who allegedly threatened a group of bus drivers with a knife was arrested on Friday night. Police Sergeant David Villanueva tells KSAL News that 54-year-old Duwayne Amor was taken into custody after an incident that began on a City Go bus ride. Police say just before 9pm Friday, Amor was asked to step ...

8 years ago
A Manhattan man was shot and killed over the weekend. According to the Riley County Police Department, Saturday night at around 7:45 dispatch received a call of an unresponsive individual in the 1400 block of Vista Lane. When officers arrived on scene, they found a 21-year-old male with life-threatening injuries, suffering from a gunshot wound. The male, ...

8 years ago
The City of Salina and Salina Downtown Inc. invite citizens to attend a celebration of the progress of the Downtown Streetscape Project. A progress party is planned on October 10th from 5 p.m.-6 p.m. in Spilman Plaza, 226 S. Santa Fe Ave. The event will include a welcome from Mayor Karl Ryan, a brief discussion with ...

8 years ago
Through a generous grant from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, 30 paid internships are available for Fort Hays State University students during the 2018-19 academic year (including the summer 2019 term). FHSU will partner with employers in the Hansen Foundation’s 26-county service area in northwest Kansas to create these part-time internships. The employer invests $500 toward ...

8 years ago
In just a matter of days, ink will be drying on freshly-printed copies of Kansas’ 2018 Upland Bird Hunting Forecast, but if you can’t wait any longer, there’s an electronic version to tide you over. Bird hunters can download a PDF version of this year’s forecast at ksoutdoors.com. How To Download the “2018 Upland Bird Forecast” ...

8 years ago
The topic of "Forced Freedom" will be discussed at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene. The next Lunch & Learn program is Thursday, Sept. 27 at noon in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium, 200 SE 4th, Abilene. Free and open to the public, a light lunch is provided courtesy of the Eisenhower ...

8 years ago
A girls' day out for Susan Leech and her 2-year-old daughter Avelyn was highlighted by a trip to the Smoky Hill Museum Street Fair on Saturday in Salina. The two worked together on making a new rope, using an old world technique. "You hold one and I'll hold the other," Susan explained to Avelyn as the ...

8 years ago
Hundreds of people in Salina were up bright and early Saturday morning, lacing up their shoes. They ran, or walked, the length of  the downtown area . It was the "Fe For a Cure" event, starting and ending on Santa Fe, to help locally in the fight against cancer. Fe for A Cure is a unique event. ...

8 years ago
Kansas State University remains among the top higher educational institutions in the nation for demonstrating diversity and inclusion. Insight into Diversity magazine has awarded the university with the 2018 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity, or HEED, Award. Kansas State University has received the award every year since 2014. The university is one of 96 higher education ...

8 years ago
The City of Salina will host the 2019 Unmanned Aerial System Tech Forum in the fall of 2019.   The announcement was made during the 2018 conference held in Broken Arrow, Okla. The conference is the largest annual event produced by the Unmanned Arial Systems Cluster Initiative of the U.S Small Business Administration to support the ...

8 years ago
A student from Salina is among eight outstanding KU undergraduates who have been selected to serve as Hall Center Scholars for 2018-2019. They will have exclusive opportunities to interact with the well-known authors, scholars and public intellectuals who speak in the Hall Center Humanities Lecture Series. The scholars for 2018-19: Kayleigh Anderson, Lawrence senior in English ...