8 years ago
Two Salina radio stations are into their second and final day of a two-day effort to help in the fight against childhood cancer. Rocking M Media radio stations Y 93.7 and Real Country 101.7 are hosting a two-day radiothon to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Both radio stations are broadcasting continuously, from 6 AM till ...

8 years ago
Students have been allowed back into their rooms at Kansas State University's Wefald Hall following an early morning fire Friday. Twenty-four students are being relocated because of water damage to their rooms. A university employee inspecting conditions after the fire slipped on some standing water and was injured. Staff with the university's Division of Student Life are ...

8 years ago
A man  who Salina Police had been seeking in connection with a recent shooting has been caught. Police say that Darren James Jackson Sr. was arrested Thursday afternoon. Police believe that Jackson was the gunman in a shooting that took place February 5th at a house in the 100 block of N. Front Street. First responders found ...

8 years ago
A Kansas company is helping Puerto Rico recover from the effects of Hurricane Maria. The Maico plant in Ellsworth is making 25-hundred power poles that are being sent to the island. Maico is working on part of a FEMA project to restore power to areas of Puerto Rico that have been left without electricity since the hurricane ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of a car dolly from a rental business. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that sometime between November 18 of last year and February 28, someone stole a two wheeled car dolly from Penske Rentals located at 575 E. Water Well Road. Deputies say the 2008 Demco model ...

8 years ago
A Delphos man has been found guilty of physical mistreatment of five dependent adults. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmid, 25-year-old Thomas James Tholstrup pleaded guilty in Cloud County District Court to one count of attempted aggravated criminal sodomy and four counts of mistreatment of a dependent adult. Each of the five victims was an elderly, ...

8 years ago
A fight in downtown Salina early Wednesday evening involving multiple people left two of them bloodied, one with a stab wound the other with a laceration. Police told KSAL News at the scene that officers were dispatched at around  5:00 to a report of a fight in progress in a parking lot in the 100 block ...

8 years ago
A Salina Police Department dispatcher is credited with helping to save a man's life. Salina Police Wednesday afternoon via social media said that back on January 25th Communications Officer Cassie McManigal answered a 911 medical emergency call. She was given information that a 70-year-old man had suffered a seizure, and was having difficulty breathing.  McManigal calmly ...

8 years ago
A story walk has been installed in Caldwell Plaza by a Leadership Salina group which promotes early childhood literacy. “We chose to bring attention to the "6 by 6 Ready to Read" program and partnered with the Salina Public Library to implement the program,” says Michael Freeland of the project group. The group installed 6 permanent sign ...

8 years ago
Following an investigation by Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents, a former Pawnee County Sheriff’s Office detective was issued a criminal summons. According to the agency, an investigation began in December 2017 after Pawnee County Sheriff Scott King and Undersheriff Derek Slack requested the KBI investigate the detective’s conduct. 43-year-old Jeffrey King of Larned was recently issued a ...

8 years ago
A former candidate for Kansas governor is trying to lure the National Rifle Association's annual convention to the state. Wink Hartman offered Hartman Arena in Park City as a potential host in a tweet yesterday. He also noted that people cannot stand by as law-abiding citizens are disarmed by liberal and anti-Second Amendment groups. The NRA convention is ...