8 years ago
A Saline County landlord is seeking guidance in connection with a bed bug infestation issue. Larry Mattison told the Saline County Commission that he has recently dealt with 3 or 4 tenants who have had bed bug infestations.  He said that once the problem is known, it can be treated.  But, if the problem is not ...

8 years ago
After the County appraises property values, the State monitors the actual sales prices of residential and commercial properties.  County Appraiser Sean Robertson told Saline County Commissioners that both the “ratio” and “coefficients of dispersion” from the county’s 2016 valuations were within the State’s targets. Robertson said the “ratio” looks at how well the assessed valuation is ...

8 years ago
A woman comes home to discover her home in east Salina was broken into while she was at work. Police say sometime between 8am and 4pm on Monday someone damaged the front door on an apartment in the 700 block of Fairdale Road and stole a 52-inch TV and glass TV stand. Thieves also removed a couple ...

8 years ago
A Salina man is in jail after being accused of slashing another man with a knife. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 55-year-old Lee Roy McCray was taken into custody on Monday in connection to an incident last week at the Budget King Motel at 809 Broadway. Police say on August 23 around 1am, McCray ...

8 years ago
The closing of two anchor stores does not mean the end for the Salina Central Mall. The longtime Salina business is working with a real estate group, and has plans to remodel and expand as nearly a half-dozen new businesses are ready to locate there. The announced closing closing of of Dillard's store this week, while ...

8 years ago
A Authorities say a deputy has killed a driver in central Kansas after he tried to take another officer's gun. The man was killed Monday night near Moundridge after Newton Police attempted to stop a vehicle with suspected ties to car burglary. Police said in a news release that the driver fled on Interstate 135 and ...

8 years ago
A voice that was heard on the radio for years in the Midwest, including on KSAL Radio, is being remembered. Chris Abercrombie passed away on Friday. The 68-year-old Abercrombie, a Lindsborg native, had a passion for radio. He worked in the broadcasting industry much of his adult life, working at multiple radio stations in Kansas and ...

8 years ago
A Topeka man was hurt in a single-vehicle crash near Salina on Monday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 83-year-old Donald Anderson of Topeka was driving a 2014 Ford Mustang, headed east on Interstate  70. He lost control, went across the passing lane and into the median, then back across the lanes and struck a ...

8 years ago
A man suspected of killing a Kansas City, Kansas, police captain will undergo a third evaluation to determine if he is competent to stand trial. Defense attorneys for 21-year-old Jamaal Lewis sought the evaluation by a defense expert. Lewis already has been evaluated locally and at Larned State Hospital. The Kansas City Star reports District Judge Wes ...

8 years ago
A man from Maine has been arrested in California in connection with a murder in Ottawa County. According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, their agency and the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of authorities in California, made an arrest connected to the shooting death of Matthew Schoshke, which occurred earlier this month in ...

8 years ago
A Wichita church says a girl whose body was found in a lake drowned while attending a party for middle-schoolers. The girl's body was found Sunday afternoon. Wichita Fire Department Interim Chief Tammy Snow says the search began several hours earlier after the child's parents came to pick up the youth from the party. Emergency and fire crews ...