9 years ago
He came across the prairie cloaked in many different customs and traditions at Christmas. Saturday, Pioneer Santa will help young and old alike - look back at Christmas' past at the museum. "He doesn't have on the shiny suit," said Nona Miller, Education Coordinator with the Smoky Hill Museum. "And looking back at all the different nationalities that ...

9 years ago
An appeals court says a Marquette man serving a 260-year sentence in a Kansas child pornography case must liquidate his union retirement account and apply that money he hid from the court to provide restitution to the victims. Wednesday's ruling by a Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upholds a federal judge's ruling against ...

9 years ago
Authorities are trying to determine what caused a Kansas grain bin to collapse and spill about 250,000 bushels of corn on the ground. The Hays Post reports that no one was injured when the bin gave way around 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Morris County community of White City. Morris County Emergency Management director Chris Blackledge says ...

9 years ago
A Salina bank employees discovered a counterfeit $100 this week. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a staff member at  First Bank Kansas, 2860 S. 9th, found a fake $100 inside the facility on Wednesday and called authorities. Police say the bill was marked, "For Motion Picture Use Only."

9 years ago
Actress Kirstie Alley has decorated a Wichita home she owns with a Santa's Village set she saved from her 1993 film "Look Who's Talking Now." It had been several years since she put up the set in her childhood hometown. The set appeared in a scene where Alley, playing Mollie Ubriacco, loses her job and needs ...

9 years ago
A fire badly damaged a central Salina home late Wednesday afternoon. First responders were called at around 4:45 to the report of a residential fire at a home in the Indian Village area. They discovered a home at 1520 Cheyenne on fire. Salina Fire Department Investigator Troy Long told KSAL News at the scene that the first ...

9 years ago
Kansas has announced plans to review its Amber Alert system after a faulty alert this week. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a release Wednesday that he's ordered a review of the state's Amber Alert operations after a Wichita Amber Alert on Tuesday failed to activate on cellphones. The alert was issued after a woman and ...

9 years ago
A coalition of Kansas teachers, state workers, contractors and others is proposing to increase income and gasoline taxes to fix the state's budget problems. But the plan outlined Wednesday by the Rise Up Kansas Coalition also would reduce the state's sales tax on groceries to help poor families. The plan would undo some of the massive income ...

9 years ago
Taking chances on stage to connect with your audience doesn't always work out the way you think, comedian Jeff Foxworthy told listeners during the KSAL Morning News Wednesday. Foxworthy is set to team up with Larry the Cable Guy in Salina Friday night at the Bicentennial Center. "I'll go out by myself and do 45-50 minutes of ...

9 years ago
Officers arrested 23-year-old Mikal Terrell on Tuesday after staff at Bennington State Bank, 2130 S. Ohio contacted authorities after Terrell allegedly tried to cash a forged check. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, Terrell tried to obtain $700 in cash by forging a check that was stolen in July from a Derby, Kansas man.   Police are investigating ...

9 years ago
A former city clerk for the city of Bennington has pleaded guilty to embezzlement. According to U.S. Attorney Tom Beall’s office, 43-year-old Janetta Marie Buttery pleaded guilty Monday to one count of interstate transportation of stolen funds. In her plea, Buttery said she served as city clerk from October 2014 to May 2016 and left the position ...