9 years ago
Calvin Kelsey has a full-time job working for the Salina Fire Department.  He also serves as Chief of Rural Fire District #2, which has stations in Mentor and Assaria.  Almost the same can be said for Dave Sommerfeld, who serves as Assistant Chief and Secretary/Treasurer to RFD#2’s board.  Changing banking regulations have created new hurdles ...

9 years ago
Authorities say officers have shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at them. Police said in a media release that the shooting happened at 2 a.m. Tuesday when officers responded to a home and encountered a white man in a bedroom armed with a handgun. The release says officers fired their weapons when the ...

9 years ago
Police made two arrests after being alerted that two males were trying to break into a vacant Salina motel on Monday afternoon about 3:30pm. Officers arrested 18-year-old Joshua James and another male who is 16, after police witnessed the two allegedly using a hammer to hit an exterior wall at the former Coachlight Motel, 1949 ...

9 years ago
UPDATE:  Authorities say the abduction of a Wichita woman and three children after a residential burglary was not a random event. Wichita police said Tuesday that 36-year-old Melissa Gifford, 2-year-old Grayson Gifford, 8-year-old Madison Ruiz and 8-year-old Aiden Ruiz were found safe at a hotel in Wichita after the reported abduction. Wichita police say in a news ...

9 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback has named Kansas' top revenue official to an economic advisory post and replaced him with a retired executive of a marketing and advertising agency. Brownback announced former state lawmaker Nick Jordan's appointment Monday to the lead role with the Governor's Economic Advisory Council with the Kansas Department of Commerce. Jordan will start that ...

9 years ago
Cash and a purse were stolen from a car in the 300 block of S. 12th Street sometime between 7pm Friday and 9:30pm Saturday night. Police say thieves caused $500 damage to the passenger door on 1999 Chevy Malibu and then took a Falun woman's purse and an undisclosed amount of cash.   Police are investigating a ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a stabbing that happened outside the Muse Ballroom at 1700 Beverly around 2am on Sunday. Police say a parking lot argument escalated when someone pulled out a knife and stabbed a 20-year-old male from Moundridge in the right forearm. He was treated at the hospital. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that the victim ...

9 years ago
A truck owner calls Salina Police after seeing a man leave his driveway with a box of tools. Police arrested 18-year-old Alan Carter on Saturday after he allegedly entered a Chevy pickup around 2am that was parked in the 2400 block of Robin Road and stole a Snap-on Tool kit. Officers were able to locate Carter a ...

9 years ago
A residential fire leaves a family homeless and investigators looking into what caused the blaze. The Saline County Sheriff's Office reports that when crews from Rural Fire District #3 arrived Sunday evening at about 5:30pm, they could see smoke pouring out of a trailer home at 7232 W. Colt Road. Lt. Stan Fruits tells KSAL News that ...

9 years ago
Equipment at a small milling company in New Cambria was damaged by fire over the weekend. Lt. Stan Fruits with the Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that a fire at Farmer Direct Foods, 5641 Mariposa Road ignited when the flow of grain stopped and the grinding stones sparked a fire into the filter on ...

9 years ago
Winter weather is in the forecast for Kansas and Kansas Department of Transportation crews are equipped and ready. “Every year KDOT has snow fighter training and this year is no different,” said KDOT’s Bureau Chief of Maintenance Clay Adams. “Our crews are ready to respond to whatever winter brings us.” KDOT has stored 130,000 tons of salt ...