8 years ago
A Chinese scientist was sentenced Wednesday to a little over 10 years in prison in a federal prison for conspiring to steal samples of a variety of rice seeds Ventria Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical research facility in Junction City. “Ventria invested years of research and tens of millions of dollars to create a new and beneficial product,” ...

8 years ago
A Kansas City area musician will highlight First Friday events in Salina later this week. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, on Friday, April 6th, programming kicks off with First Friday visual arts events downtown at The Flower Nook, 204 and 208 E. Iron Avenue, with four simultaneous events: an exhibit by Karen Holiday, BYOA (Bring ...

8 years ago
A Salina man is finally behind bars after he had been hospitalized when he fell through his ex-girlfriend's roof last week, however, then escaping custody at the hospital before authorities were able to capture him later Tuesday night. 25-year-old Tyler Berkamp had been in the hospital since he sustained injuries after he fell out of the ...

8 years ago
A Salina man was transported to the hospital, then later arrested, after he took a turn too quickly on the interchange between Interstates 70 and 135, resulting in his vehicle rolling. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that deputies responded to a single vehicle crash shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the southbound ...

8 years ago
Kansas lawmakers are one step closer to approving a new school finance plan. The Kansas House voted yesterday to advance a plan to boost school funding by 522-million-dollars over the next five years. The Kansas Senate announced yesterday it will not vote on a school funding plan until lawmakers pass a bill creating a constitutional amendment promising ...

8 years ago
Drought conditions have prompted a disaster declaration for multiple counties in Central Kansas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Morris, Rush and Saline counties in Kansas as primary natural disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought. Farmers and ranchers in the contiguous counties in ...

8 years ago
The Salina Community Economic Development Organization and the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the Entrepreneur Summit next week. The event is the first step in a planning process to determine what current assets exist in the community to support starting new businesses, what gaps exist in the entrepreneurial environment, and how those gaps ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a theft from a local construction company. Authorities say Ponton Construction, located at 1325 Armory fired an employee on March 14. Days later the known suspect allegedly used the company's Lowe's business account card in Texas to make four purchases totalling $9,100. The card was denied the fifth time he tried to use it ...

8 years ago
String band Old Crow Medicine Show is coming to Salina. The group will perform at the Stiefel Theatre this summer. Old Crow Medicine Show's music has been called old-time, folk, and alternative country. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs. The band started busking on street corners in 1998 ...

8 years ago
Saline County Sheriff's deputies are investigating after someone stole a 16-foot car trailer from a lot located in the 1300 block of West North Street. Deputies say sometime between March 16 and March 31, someone stole the trailer which also had a concrete sifter on board as well. Loss is estimated at $1,500.

8 years ago
Authorities are saying a school threat in Derby is unfounded. Derby Public Schools officials say a concerned parent called yesterday to report their child overheard another student threatening to shoot up the school bus as it headed to Wineteer Elementary School. The school bus driver was instructed to inspect the bus and all backpacks, but no weapons ...