9 years ago
Several people were hurt in a crash involving multiple vehicles on a smoke covered road near Brookville Tuesday afternoon. Officials tell KSAL News that the crash involved a car, and a couple of all terrain vehicles. The ATVS were on Brookville Road, about a mile north of Brookville, and were being used to keep a controlled burn ...

9 years ago
Central Kansas Mental Health Executive Director Kathy Mosher told Saline County Commissioners that a pilot program to reduce recidivism at the jail produced an estimated savings of $140,247 last year.  Mosher said that after receiving services from CKMHC, 15 soon-to-be-released inmates did not return to jail within 90 days or longer.  This amounted to a ...

9 years ago
Fire officials estimate that a weekend apartment complex fire in Junction City caused nearlyJunction City apartment blaze damage totals around $3.8M in damage. The Junction City Fire Department said Monday that additional individual property loss for residents will vary. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2oVbARV ) reports that firefighters dumped more than 1.6 million gallons of water on the blaze ...

9 years ago
Salina Regional Health Center and cardiologists with Mowery Clinic recently began offering a new treatment for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder, that serves as an alternative to long-term anticoagulation medication used to reduce risk for stroke. Patients with atrial fibrillation have a five times greater risk for stroke than people with ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a man whose body was found in a Kansas City-area park's lake had been reported missing for more than a month. Sheriff's officials in Kansas' Johnson County say fingerprint analyses confirmed the man's identity as 35-year-old Dawit Tesfaye. Authorities say Tesfaye went missing on March 2. His body was spotted by a kayaker about 1:30 ...

9 years ago
Salina SWAT and the Kansas Highway Patrol teamed up Monday evening to arrest a man wanted for kidnapping who was considered armed and dangerous. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 30-year-old Matthew Collier was taken into custody without incident around 8pm Monday in an apartment unit at Chapel Ridge Apartments, 2363 Chapel Ridge. Authorities had been ...

9 years ago
Smoke from controlled burns in Kansas drifted into Salina Tuesday morning, causing a hazy sky. Authorities tell KSAL News that the smoke is more than likely from a large controlled burn in Ottawa County. Late Monday night there were also several large controlled burns to the east of Salina in the Flint Hills region. Officials stressed that ...

9 years ago
A multi-Grammy Award-winning gospel performer is coming to Salina. The Gaither Vocal Band is coming to the Tony's Pizza Events Center. According to the venue, Gaither will host a spectacular evening of music, laughter and encouragement. Named ASCAP's Songwriters of the Century, Bill and Gloria Gaither have written more than 700 popular gospel songs throughout their multi-decade ...

9 years ago
Authorities in Lenexa, Kansas, are identifying two teenagers killed when the vehicle in which they were riding slammed into a tree shortly after the driver refused to stop for police. Police say 15-year-old Isaiah Stroble and 13-year-old Angelito Espinosa died in the accident about 5 a.m. Sunday. Both victims were from Kansas City, Kansas. Seven other people were ...

9 years ago
The number of mumps cases at Kansas State University is now up to 15 since February. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is recommending that people in close contact to others diagnosed with mumps receive a third dose of the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. The recommendation is based on the Centers for Disease Control ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a couple of unrelated burglaries, one at a motel the other in a home in the Schilling area. Police say sometime between 5:45pm and 6:10pm on Saturday, someone forced a door open on a storage room at the Ambassy Motel, 217 S. Broadway and stole power tools, door locks and documents ...