9 years ago
A trailer full of automobile batteries tips over in the parking lot at Exide Technologies in Salina Monday evening. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office an Ottawa yard truck was pulling an enclosed trailer loaded with 35,000 pounds of unsecured batteries. The driver was making a turn into the lot at 413 E Berg Road when ...

9 years ago
The expanding KU medical school in Salina is adding a nursing program. In an effort to attract and educate professional nurses in rural parts of Kansas, the University of Kansas School of Nursing is partnering with Salina Regional Health Center to open a new campus location in Salina. “An important part of the University of Kansas’ ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a deputy has used a stun gun on a man who advanced toward law enforcement with a machete after a northwest Kansas chase. The pursuit started Monday afternoon when Sheridan County sheriff's deputies spotted a vehicle linked to a domestic disturbance making a U-turn on U.S. 24. A news release says the deputies tried to ...

9 years ago
A man from Moundridge was hurt in a single vehicle motorcycle crash west of Salina on Interstate 70 Monday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 61-year-old Joel Hoffmann was on a Honda motorcycle, riding north at the Interstate 135 interchange heading to east bound Interstate 70. Hoffmann lost control and left the road. He rolled ...

9 years ago
It has been a relatively quiet start to severe weather season in Central Kansas. But that could end on Tuesday. Late Monday afternoon the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center upgraded a large area of Central Kansas, including the Salina area, into an enhanced risk. An enhanced risk means that numerous severe storms  are possible, along ...

9 years ago
The Salina Area Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Council will host the Seventh Annual Armed Forces Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday, May 20 at Great Life Golf and Fitness, 1800 S. Marymount Road in Salina, KS. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Salina Military Emergency Relief Fund, which assists service members in need and is ...

9 years ago
Enrollment in Salina Area Technical College’s summer general-education classes is open through June 1. The college offers nine different general-education classes this summer, all for $99 / credit hour. “These classes are perfect for several groups of people,” said Stephani Johns-Hines, Salina Tech’s Vice President of Instruction. “If you’ve just graduated from high school, and are planning ...

9 years ago
Health officials are investigating a central Kansas man's death from a virulent form of meningitis. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a news release that laboratory tests have confirmed that the death was the result of meningococcal meningitis, an acute infection of the bloodstream caused by a bacteria known as Neisseria meningitides. Health officials ...

9 years ago
Police are looking for a stolen 2006 Chevy Silverado that was reported stolen sometime between midnight and noon on Saturday. The owner told officers he parked the truck in the lot at Brown Mackie, 2106 S. 9th, locked with no keys inside. The truck is valued at $2,500 with Kansas license plate 688 KMV. A burglar ...

9 years ago
A Salina woman is charged with DUI after smashing into a tree in a vehicle authorities say she took without permission. Police arrested 24-year-old Mahala Shepherd on Friday evening around 7:30pm after she was transported to the hospital to be checked out following a single car crash at 3029 Foxboro. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that ...

9 years ago
An argument that began on the ride home from a bar lands a Salina man in jail early Saturday. Police arrested 24-year-old Cody J. Rarig after he allegedly held a female acquaintance against her will inside a home in the 600 block of Huehl Circle. A person in the apartment next door called police after hearing a ...