10 years ago
A former Salina Deputy Police Chief will be the new top cop in Abilene. The City of Abilene announced in a media release Thursday that that Mike Marshall will serve as Police Chief of the Abilene Police Department. Marshall has over thirty years of experience in law enforcement with the Salina Police Department. His career included ...

10 years ago
A long-time Salina-based company is being sold to a company in Japan. Employees at Great Plains Manufacturing were notified Thursday that the company is being sold to Kubota U.S.A. Inc. Kubota Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Great Plains Manufacturing. Once final, the purchase will expand the company’s long-time partnership with ...

10 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback made a stop in Salina Thursday to ceremoniously sign two bills into law. The governor signed a bill that modernizes, and keeps the STAR Bond program alive in Kansas. He signed a second law enforcement bill which will help the Kansas Highway Patrol retain, and hire new troopers. House Bill 2632:  Revising provisions ...

10 years ago
A woman who was stabbed during an incident in South Salina early Thursday morning has died. Salina Police say that at approximately 9:34 a.m. officers were sent to the area of Roach Street and Max Avenue in reference a stabbing. Upon arrival they found a woman in her 40s with a stab wound. She was treated ...

10 years ago
The I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force makes 3 arrests following a months long investigation. According to Task Force Commander Lt. Bill Cox, officers surrounded a 4-plex apartment at 766 Comanche at noon on Wednesday and arrested 50-year-old Darrell J. Morgenstern, 47-year-old Amy C. Morgenstern and 40-year-old Rodney A. Ring. Police found personal use amounts of methamphetamine, marijuana, drug ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a suspect in connection with a Thursday morning stabbing. Salina Deputy Police Chief Sean Morton tells KSAL News that officers were sent at around 9:30 in the morning to the report of a stabbing, at a home in the 1800 block of Max Street, near the intersection with Roach. Morton says that ...

10 years ago
Transgender rights advocates have called on Kansas' health department to abandon a proposal to make it far more difficult for people to change the gender on their birth certificates. Topeka resident Stephanie Mott said during a Department of Health and Environment hearing Thursday that regulatory changes under consideration will lead more transgender youth to attempt suicide. ...

10 years ago
Police have arrested a 16-year-old Salina boy on charges of raping a pre-teen girl. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that police were contacted by the Department of Children and Family Services on March 3rd with a report of abuse that occurred at the home of 16-year-old Chrishawn Moore, of 724 S. Front. Police allege the crime ...

10 years ago
A McPherson teen was arrested in connection to a pair of burglaries at two Salina Subway restaurants. Officers arrested 17-year-old Kyle Farley on Wednesday after investigators connected surveillance footage from the stores and - a chance interview an officer on patrol had with Farley near the Subway on East Crawford. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News ...

10 years ago
Three teens from St. John's Military School are dead, and another is injured after their pickup crashed in the foothills outside Denver. The Colorado State Patrol says 18-year-old Jake Whitting of Glen Head, New York, 19-year-old John Yoder of Denver, Colorado, and 16-year-old A.J. Ricketts of Nigeria died after Whitting lost control, went off the road ...

10 years ago
Organizers are once again preparing to host the State 4A Division I & II Baseball and Softball Championships in Salina. Each year the twin tournaments bring in a total of 16 teams, plus family, friends and fans to watch baseball in Salina. "A lot of them, depending on where they're from spend the night. And we estimate ...