9 years ago
Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has told a sometimes raucous crowd of hundreds that he would have voted against a House-passed bill that would repeal and replace the Obama-era federal health care overhaul law. Moran spoke Monday at a conference center in Johnson County, which President Donald Trump won by fewer than 3 percentage point. Moran says ...

9 years ago
Flags are being flown at half-staff in honor of Kansas Rep. Patsy Terrell who was found dead last week in her hotel room near the Capitol. Flags will remain in that position at all state buildings, state grounds and state facilities through Saturday, when she will be interred. The Hutchinson Democrat was found dead last Wednesday. Topeka ...

9 years ago
Two Salina men were sentenced Monday on federal drug and gun charges. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall, the two men who were sentenced are: Seth Allen George, 26, Salina, Kan., was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of brandishing firearms ...

9 years ago
A Missouri man was hurt in a single vehicle crash, when he rolled his truck on Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County late Monday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 25-year-old Evan Oltremare from Butler, Missouri, was driving a 2001 Ford truck headed west on I 70. For an unknown reason, the truck went into the ...

9 years ago
Another big act is coming to the Stiefel Theatre in Salina. Ryan Adams is coming this fall. Adams has released fifteen albums, and as a former member of the alternative country band Whiskeytown he recorded three studio albums. Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at ...

9 years ago
With harvest now underway in Kansas, officials are urging caution and patience on roads, especially when traveling around farm trucks, tractors, combines, and other implements. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, most farm equipment is not designed to travel at highway speeds, and may only travel 15-25 mph. Farm equipment is often wider than other vehicles, ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are working with investigators in Wichita on a case of stolen identity after a person claiming to be that man from Wichita walked out of NexTech Wireless Central Mall location with 5 Apple iPhones worth $4,200. Police say the suspect convinced a staff member he was starting up a business and opened an ...

9 years ago
Police are looking for a 17-year-old male - after his father allegedly assaulted a police officer to free him. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that two officers were serving a warrant for the teen at a trailer park in the 900 block of N. 13th around 8:45pm Saturday night. Forrester says officers knocked on the front ...

9 years ago
A Saturday morning fire destroys a Ford tractor. Crews from Rural Fire Department #3 were called to an active fire inside a metal shed in the 8400 block of W. Stimmel Road Saturday morning just after 8am. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that owner Joe Armstrong discovered the bidirectional tractor was on fire inside ...

9 years ago
Some parents of Shawnee Mission School District students in eastern Kansas aren't happy to learn the public school district has bought eight semi-automatic rifles for its school resource officers. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/2sRjtXo) the rifles were bought in 2015, but that parents only recently learned of them. Some parents, like Lisa Veglahn, were unnerved by ...

9 years ago
Rescue teams have found the body of a 17-year-old boy who drowned in a small eastern Kansas lake. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/2shZrbo) that the teen was swimming in the Pierson Park lake early Sunday with friends when he disappeared beneath the water. The other three teens called authorities around 2 a.m. Sunday to report the ...