8 years ago
The public is welcome to attend the annual Valentine's Day Dinner and Dance sponsored by the Chapman American Legion Riders Chapter 240. The event takes place on February 10 in the upstairs dining hall of the Chapman American Legion, located at 222 N. Marshall. Dinner will be served from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. and will ...

8 years ago
The Salina Regional Health Foundation’s Community Health Investment Program awarded five grants at its February committee meeting for a total of $108,000. Funding for CHIP primarily comes from Salina Regional Health Center, which tithes a percentage of its operating margin each year to the Salina Regional Health Foundation. Additional funding for CHIP has come from the ...

8 years ago
The Procter and Gamble plant in Kansas City, Kansas, is closing its doors. Company officials announced yesterday the plant will close in 2020 and production of the dish care business will move to a new plant in West Virginia. The plant employs 280 people and the company plans to work with the local labor union to help ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office in a joint effort with the Salina Police Department is set to host the Advanced Citizen's Academy again this spring. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that this is a unique chance for residents to go behind the badge and learn how officers work in the field. Applications are being accepted ...

8 years ago
The flu is prompting a northwest Kansas school district to close. Students in the Norton Community Schools will get an unplanned break from classes today and tomorrow due to widespread illness. Officials say classrooms will be disinfected and students will return to school on Monday. Story from Metro Source

8 years ago
After five years of fruitful partnership, two Kansas organizations hope to create even more of a good thing. In January 2013, Kansas State University and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home in Abilene entered a partnership to give researchers greater access to both institutions' scholarly assets. Now, the two organizations have recommitted to ...

8 years ago
When Kansas State University Polytechnic student Jacob Cowart was 12 years old, he went to a flight camp where he was able to take the controls and fly. After that, he was hooked on flying. But the process of piloting an airplane is not easy for Cowart, who has been wheelchair-bound most of his life. Airplanes ...

8 years ago
The death of a Fort Riley soldier in Germany is under investigation. According to the Army, 34-year-old First Sgt. Nicholas S. Amsberry died on Sunday while deployed to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany. Amsberry was found near the train station in Parsberg, Germany. The discovery was reported to the German police and Parsberg emergency ...

8 years ago
Authorities are investigating after a Kansas fire station caught fire. The blaze broke out yesterday at the Butler County Rural Fire District Five station. Local volunteer firefighters extinguished the fire, which destroyed a garage and truck. No injuries were reported in the incident.

8 years ago
Harvey County is recovering from a cyberattack. Officials say part of the county's computer network was disabled in this week's attack and they are working with insurance providers and cyber security experts to recover lost data. The county does not believe personal information of employees and residents was compromised in the attack. The attack was discovered on Sunday ...

8 years ago
A Kansas professor and father of three is facing deportation. Syed Ahmed Jamal lawfully traveled to the U.S. over 30-years ago on an education visa from Bangladesh and continued to obtain various student visas while pursuing graduate degrees. Eventually Jamal applied for and obtained an H-1B visa for highly skilled workers, which allowed him to go to ...