10 years ago
From October 15 to November 15, “parole violators” spent a total of 793 days in the Saline County Jail. The County’s Committee to Reduce Jail Population asked staff at the State Parole, Community Corrections, and Court Services to track the number of days that “supervised offenders” spent in jail when these agencies have requested that these ...

10 years ago
Thanksgiving Day shopping is a delight to some and an anathema to others, but it isn't going away and some stores are rethinking their strategies on whether it makes sense to be open on the holiday itself. Many of the nation's major mall operators and the big retailers that anchor them, such as Toys R Us, ...

10 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued a disaster declaration after an explosion at a southeast Kansas chemical plant injured at least one person. The declaration announced Wednesday allows the National Guard to help respond to Tuesday's explosion at the Airosol Inc. plant in the 2,500-person town of Neodesha. The effort includes providing bottled water to residents. Public ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after someone paid a pizza delivery driver with a couple of fake $20 bills. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a Pizza Hut driver from the S. Santa Fe location delivered pizza to a home in the 900 block of S. 9th Street Tuesday evening around 9:30pm. Staff later discovered that the ...

10 years ago
An investigation into a stolen wood stove leads to the discovery of other stolen items and the arrest of a Salina man. The Saline County Sheriff's Office used a search warrant to enter a home at 917 N. 13th Lot #6 and found a wood stove that was reportedly stolen from a home in the 5000 ...

10 years ago
The driver of a stolen truck was taken into custody after a chase through Salina early Wednesday. Saline County Sheriff-elect Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that a deputy identified a Toyota truck that was reported stolen and attempted to make a traffic stop in the 600 block of E. Pacific at 12:30am. The driver took off reaching ...

10 years ago
Salina Area Technical College’s Diesel Department is the first to benefit from a new nationwide initiative by truck manufacturer Kenworth to improve the education of the next generation of Diesel mechanics. The PACCAR MX-13 engine, donated by Kenworth through the local MHC Kenworth dealership in Salina, is a six-cylinder, 13-liter engine generating just under 500 horsepower. ...

10 years ago
The slowly improving economy could boost travel over the Thanksgiving holiday to levels not seen in nine years. AAA forecasts that 48.7 million Americans will travel, the busiest Thanksgiving period on U.S. roads and skies since 2007, the year before the global financial crisis plunged the U.S. economy into a deep recession. The auto club AAA said ...

10 years ago
Operators of a Kansas water park where a state lawmaker's 10-year-old son was killed on a waterslide last summer say that ride will be demolished. Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts and the family that runs it said in a statement Tuesday that the 168-foot "Verruckt" at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, Kansas, will eventually be torn ...

10 years ago
As the Saline County Commissioners discussed many of the topics before them, the conversation included references to what they had accomplished in the past.  Four new commissioners will take office in January.  Chairman Monte Shadwick is the only seated commissioner whose term of office extends through 2018. Commissioners Jim Gile and Dave Smith identified ways they’d ...

10 years ago
A federal court is blocking implementation of a regulation that would make an estimated 4 million more higher-earning workers eligible for overtime pay. The U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide preliminary injunction Tuesday that prevents the Department of Labor from implementing the changes until the rule's legality can be further ...