8 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a suspect who took a baggie full of suspected counterfeit cash and bought a pack of gum with a fake $100. Police report a surveillance video from Casey's at 215 W. Crawford shows a black, bald male who is about 5-foot 10 to 6-foot tall in sunglasses pass the counterfeit $100 ...

8 years ago
A garage goes up in flames southwest of Salina. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that crews from Rural Fire District #6 and RFD #2 were dispatched to a structure fire on Sunday afternoon at 8180 S. Halstead Road just after 3pm. Sheriff Soldan says the firefighters were able to stop the blaze from spreading ...

8 years ago
A man from Minneapolis, Kansas was cited for hitting a pedestrian in the Salina Wal-Mart parking lot crosswalk Tuesday. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 70-year-old Susan Riordan of Salina was transported to Salina Regional Health Center to be treated for a leg injury after being struck by a vehicle driven by 74-year-old Darrell Francisco. Police ...

8 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is getting a second chance to become an ambassador. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to take up Brownback's nomination to be Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom on Thursday.  No confirmation vote has been scheduled for the full Senate. President Donald Trump formally renominating Brownback to become ambassador-at-large for international religious ...

8 years ago
A Fort Riley soldier was found dead in an off-post residence in Junction City this week. According to the Army, Spc. Hunter Schmidtke was found unresponsive in an off-post home on Monday and later pronounced dead. The Junction City Police Department and Fort Riley Criminal Investigation Command are investigating Schmidtke’s death. "The Soldiers of the ‘Iron Ranger’ ...

8 years ago
It's a story of presidents, generals and love of alma mater represented by one very historic volume. Kansas State University alumnus and donor Richard D. Rees has presented a special book by Dwight D. Eisenhower to Kansas State University, K-State Libraries and the university's president and first lady, Richard and Mary Jo Myers. Rees made the ...

8 years ago
A shooting call in a Kansas City suburb is ruled a hoax. Police surrounded a home in Overland Park yesterday morning on the report of a shooting. Officers searched the home and soon determined there was no danger. Investigators say someone called 911 with a fake story claiming they had shot someone inside the home. The fake 911 call ...

8 years ago
Police are investigating a case of vandalism inside a west Salina trailer. According to Captain Paul Forrester, on Monday officers found damage to a door and spray painted graffiti throughout the interior of a trailer located in the 1300 block of Winona. Police collected numerous spray paint cans from inside and noted the phrase, "Ground Zero" was ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a suspect caught on camera passing over $500 in counterfeit cash at a retail store. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that back on January 5, a black male walked into Target, 2939 Market and purchased a $300 robotic vacuum cleaner using fake $50 bills. He left the store and returned 10-minutes ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Lottery is urging all players to check their tickets after one ticket sold in Kansas won $1,000,000 in the Friday, January 12, Mega Millions drawing!  The winning ticket matched the first five numbers, but not the Megaball, to win the $1,000,000 prize.  The winning numbers in the January 12 Mega Millions drawing were ...

8 years ago
A Lawrence hotel is destroyed in a fire. The blaze broke out about noon yesterday at the America's Best Value Inn near Sixth Street and Iowa. Everyone safely evacuated and a firefighter fell through a floor, but was not hurt. Nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution and the cause of the massive fire is under investigation.