9 years ago
The Kansas Attorney General says marijuana from Colorado is "permeating" every part of Kansas. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a news release Monday that he got that information from 320 law enforcement agencies and 70 prosecutors' offices that responded to a survey. Schmidt says Colorado's decision to legalize marijuana has led to high grade marijuana from ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are warning citizens about scams after another man falls prey to a caller. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a man in his 70's received a phone call from someone claiming to be from  the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes last week. The caller asked for fees to cover his winnings and the victim told ...

9 years ago
Officers arrested 60-year-old Jon Geary of Salina on charges of aggravated assault and criminal threat after a disturbance outside an apartment complex at 737 Fairdale on Friday afternoon at 5:30pm. Police say a verbal fight between Geary and seven juveniles, ages 11 to 15 turned violent when he allegedly pointed a serrated knife at the ...

9 years ago
A tax exemption enabling business owners to pay no state tax on business income is a boon to many Kansas lawmakers. The Wichita Eagle reports nearly 70 percent of lawmakers or their spouses own a business or property that allows them to benefit from the exemption. Gov. Sam Brownback and his wife, Mary, also stand to benefit ...

9 years ago
A Salina man was arrested with a stolen gun outside Tony's Pizza on Saturday night. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that staff at Tony's, 3019 Scanlan contacted authorities when they learned that their employee, 20-year-old Jackson Goth was allegedly inside the facility with a handgun. Company policy does not allow weapons inside the facility. Police arrived ...

9 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating the report of a laser beam pointed into the cockpit of an airplane in the airspace over Salina Regional Airport. Undersheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the Airport Authority told deputies on Friday night just before 9pm, a green laser beam was pointed at the aircraft from approximately ...

9 years ago
An Assaria man is injured and arrested after performing some high speed stunts on his motorcycle. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that an officer on patrol attempted to pull over 19-year-old Chance Katzenmeier Sunday afternoon around 3:40pm when he saw him allegedly standing on the seat of his Kawasaki motorcycle riding near the Central Mall ...

9 years ago
A couple of candidate forums events are scheduled this week. One will focus on abortion and life issues, the other on education issues. The first forum, hosted by Salinans For Life,  is Monday evening from 7 - 8:30 in the Prescott Room at the Salina Public Library. Saline County candidates for the Kansas House, Kansas Senate, ...

9 years ago
The University of Kansas says this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is a Kansas graduate. The university says in a release that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is a 1973 graduate of the University of Kansas, where he majored in business and economic. Santos won the ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a man from Mexico who has been deported several times faces charges accusing him of raping a child in Kansas. Tomas Martinez-Maldonado is jailed in Geary County on $100,000 bond on a charge of raping a child under the age of 14 last month. Public defender Cole Hawver declined to comment Friday. The public ...

9 years ago
The University of Kansas' chancellor knows firing a gun on campus areas with pressurized gas cylinders, rocket fuel and other combustibles might be disastrous. But she says the school can't ban guns in such places. State-run universities in Kansas must begin allowing concealed weapons onto campuses next July. Schools must submit proposed policies to the governing ...