10 years ago
An elderly Saline County woman contacted the Sheriff's Office Wednesday after having a conversation on the phone with a scam artist. She told Sheriff Glen Kochanowski that the caller said he was an FBI agent and needed the woman to send him $4,300 to pay for her grandson's bail who was being held at the jail. The ...

10 years ago
Kansas will start giving away nicotine gum, lozenges and patches next week to help smokers drop the habit. The effort will last from June 20 to July 1, or while supplies last. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is distributing the nicotine replacement products. To participate, smokers can call the state's Tobacco Quitline. They also must ...

10 years ago
A cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. Major advances in cancer prevention, early detection and treatment have resulted in longer survival. Today, nearly 14.5 million Americans are living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis. In recognition of this, the Tammy Walker Cancer Center at Salina Regional Health Center is holding a free National Cancer Survivor’s ...

10 years ago
Hot and dry weather has more and more Kansas farmers climbing into combines to bring in the 2016 winter wheat crop. "We've kicked off and it's early in the 1st quarter," said Tom Maxwell, Extension Agent with Kansas State University. Maxwell stopped into the KSAL Morning News with a look from the starting line of this year's ...

10 years ago
Health care analysts say Gov. Sam Brownback's decision to cut money for Medicaid health coverage for the needy, disabled and elderly will add to the problems some hospitals are facing. The Wichita Eagle reports that the 4 percent budget-balancing Medicaid reimbursement cut takes effect July 1. Health care providers already had been raising concerns that the state's ...

10 years ago
Salina Police intercept a woman on her way to send $5,000 to a scam artist who had already cheated her out of $15,000. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that police were contacted by a family member of a woman in her 50's who had been convinced by a scammer that she had done something criminally ...

10 years ago
As of Wednesday morning, commercial flights are now heading in and out of the Salina Regional Airport. According to the airport, with the departure of Great Lakes Airlines flight #3021 from the Salina Regional Airport this morning at 7:45 AM, Salina area residents again have access to scheduled air service. The restoration of nonstop flights to ...

10 years ago
County Commissioners said no to new voting machines, deliberated over paving West Water Well Road, and formally asked that the Kansas Corporation Committee take actions to insure Howison Heights residents have safe water. Voting Machines Three Saline County Commissioners, who are running in 2016 political races, voted no to purchasing new voting machines, in time for the ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was arrested for assaulting two men near a gathering at a bonfire on early Saturday. Deputies with the Saline County Sheriff's Office took 32-year-old Dustin D. Tyler into custody for allegedly punching 20-year-old Jordan Purdhan and 19-year-old Ryan Koch. Deputies say the two were using a coyote call away from a house located in ...

10 years ago
Sizzling temperatures this week will have families scrambling for Kenwood Cove to cool off and have fun. Staff at Salina's aquatic park recently reviewed their policy for saving the intercom system for emergencies only and not allowing parents to simply use the PA to communicate with their children. The issue was the subject of a cover story ...

10 years ago
The owners of a Kansas roofing company are accused of forcing workers who are in the country illegally to pay kickbacks by threatening to turn them into immigration agents if they didn't. A 17-count federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in Kansas City, Kansas, accuses Century Roofing owners Tommy Frank Keaton and Graziano Cornolo of profiting from kickbacks ...