10 years ago
Salina and Saline County fire crews responded to an oil storage tank that was on fire Thursday evening on the east edge of Salina. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, Rural Fire District #5 was called to a fire at 327 N. Holmes Road at 8:49pm Thursday. Deputies reported that a unit from the Salina Fire ...

10 years ago
On July 29, 2016, between 11:30 AM and 2:30 PM forced entry was used to commit a residential burglary at 1661 W. Republic #92. A Taurus M605 38 Special .357 Revolver in a single firearm gun safe, one box of PMC 38 special ammunition and $250 in coins were taken. Loss and damage is estimated at ...

10 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's budget chief is asking state agencies and university's to study the prospect of a 5 percent funding cut. Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley says that budget director Shawn Sullivan requested the information from state agencies. But Hawley stresses no decision has been made about whether cuts will be needed, saying it's common to ...

10 years ago
Kansas Board of Regents President Blake Flanders says Kansas is facing the prospect of a "brain drain" as fewer people who graduate from a Kansas college or university choose to stay in the state. It's unclear whether people are leaving because the higher education system is failing to align itself with the Kansas economy, or whether ...

10 years ago
Taking that business idea off a note pad and making it a reality just got easier for area entrepreneurs. "Project Open classes provide education and support to different entrepreneurs who already own or are thinking about starting a business in Saline County," said Hayley Morrical with the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce. "It's just incredible how much ...

10 years ago
An ER patient's angry rant lands him in jail. Salina police officers were called to Salina Regional Health Center on Wednesday afternoon at 3:06pm after a man lashed out at nurses in the Emergency Room. Police say 36-year-old Randy Nease became violent while be treated, shattering the screen on a monitor as he tore it off the ...

10 years ago
A man accused of firing a gun at another man in the Salina Lowe's parking lot has been taken into custody. Police arrested 22-year-old Justice J. Kennedy on Wednesday. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that an officer on patrol spotted Kennedy sitting on the front porch of a home in the 600 block of S. Santa ...

10 years ago
A judge has denied a man's efforts to withdraw a plea in connection with the 2015 killing of a Salina teen. Officials tell KSAL News that Judge Rene Young on Wednesday denied a motion from 18-year-old Andrew Woodring to withdraw his no contest plea to felony murder in the death of 17-year-old Allie Saum. Back on July ...

10 years ago
Authorities say three Salina men have been charged in connection with the shooting of a southern Illinois police officer last month. Carbondale, Illinois,  police said in a news release that the three men were arrested Sunday and Monday in Salina. Those arrested include: Alex Karcher, 22, of 1616 Tanglewood Lane Xavier McCray, 22, 1012 Pershing Xavier ...

10 years ago
Tim Bower, a computer systems technology professor at Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus, is being recognized for his teaching methods in robotics programming by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. Bower composed an article in April last year about his strategies for educating beginning students on the complexities of robotics and it was ...

10 years ago
A shot of adrenaline in the form of a $2 million grant will help in the relocation, and expansion, of the Salina campus of the KU School of Medicine. The Dane G. Hansen Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the Salina Regional Health Foundation to assist in the remodeling of the new medical education ...