9 years ago
The Salina Police Department is planning a fun Halloween event. The agency is inviting community members to attend Cops and Costumes, on October 31 from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Cops and Costumes includes: Giveaways: candy, sticker badges, glow sticks, crayons and coloring books Meet and greet with police officers Photo opportunities with police officers Police vehicles on display Cops ...

9 years ago
A Salina man is facing federal charges connected with alleged child sex crimes. A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Tuesday charging a Salina man with producing and distributing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. Michael N. Rodenbeek, 53, is charged with three counts of producing child pornography, one count of distributing child pornography, ...

9 years ago
An 8-foot-long tusk of a mammoth uncovered earlier this year by a southern Kansas construction company has been moved to a lab at Wichita State University. The tusk will be cleaned and prepped for display in the Kingman County city of Cunningham, where it was found as Skyland Grain LLC ran a sewer line across a ...

9 years ago
Kansas man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months in prison for helping a would-be jihadist's unsuccessful plan to plant what they thought was a bomb at Fort Riley Army base. Alexander Blair, 29, also was sentenced to two years of supervised probation. He was accused of loaning $100 to 21-year-old John T. Booker Jr. to store ...

9 years ago
A former prison guard at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth has been sentenced to two years of probation for accepting bribes in exchange for providing inmates with contraband tobacco. The U.S. attorney's office says 53-year-old Michael Harston, of Kansas City, Missouri, also was ordered Monday to serve six months home confinement and pay $4,800 in fines. The ...

9 years ago
A group of people gathered in Salina over the weekend to show support for an event that is happening 650 miles to the north. The gathering in Salina was in solidarity with those who have set up camp in North Dakota in protest of a controversial proposed oil pipeline. The Dakota Access oil pipeline would carry ...

9 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback isn't ruling out a tax increase next year to balance the state budget even though he thinks it would be harmful to raise taxes with agriculture in a slump. Brownback had a Statehouse news conference Monday to tout what he sees as several successes that include highway projects and a reading program ...

9 years ago
The ruby slippers that whisked Dorothy back to Kansas in three clicks are looking a little down at the heels, prompting the Smithsonian to launch a $300,000 online campaign to conserve them. Museum officials started a Kickstarter fundraising drive Monday to repair the iconic slippers from 1939's "The Wizard of Oz" and create a new state-of-the-art ...

9 years ago
Downtown Salina was alive Monday, with teens roaming the streets. The first "Cultural Crawl" was held. Groups of 50 students rotates through six of  twelve available stations at various locations. Lessons were learned over curriculum areas that include arts, science, history, social studies, math and more. There was plenty for the students to do, including hands-on activities. Access ...

9 years ago
USD 305 Superintendent Bill Hall stopped into the KSAL Morning News on Monday with an update on Salina schools as he keeps an eye on the upcoming elections. "We have six of our eight elementary schools completely finished, we still have Stewart and Sunset yet to go," Hall said. Construction continues at South Middle School as well ...

9 years ago
Police are investigating after vandals shattered a glass door that leads to a laundry room at Hillcrest Apartments, 2140 E. Crawford sometime between midnight and 1am Saturday. Damage is estimated at $750.   Someone damaged a toilet in the men's restroom at Jerry Ivy Park, 2465 Edward sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Police report someone ...