10 years ago
A Salina woman was arrested on burglary and forgery charges. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 29-year-old Avrille Carlson was taken into custody on Sunday in connection to stolen checks that were cashed on May 11th and May 13th at First Bank Kansas. Police say Carlson forged two checks and cashed them for a total of ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was injured after losing control of his motorcycle on Shipton Road Saturday afternoon. According to Saline County Undersheriff Roger Soldan, 57-year-old Joseph Schaulis was riding his 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycle eastbound on Shipton, when a vehicle pulled halfway into the intersection of Shipton and Wasserman and stopped. Deputies say Schaulis lost control of his ...

10 years ago
A police pursuit ends with a single car crash and a DUI arrest. Sunday morning around 4:20am, officers were called to the 900 block of W. Ash after neighbors reported suspicious behavior and the sounds of someone pounding on a door. As police approached the area a woman in a 2005 Chevy Malibu sped past and would ...

10 years ago
A Saline County teen who stabbed her sister to death back in 2014 has been sentenced. Authorities tell KSAL News that 16-year-old Sierra Niehaus was sentenced Tuesday morning in Saline County District Court. Sierra  was 14-years-old when she stabbed her 13-year-old sister to death inside their rural Saline County home back in August of 2014. The case ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is taken into custody after choking a woman he would not allow to leave her house. Police arrested 24-year-old Kyle Cook on Monday after an argument turned violent in a north Salina home. Police say Cook and a female victim in her 20's were arguing and when she attempted to leave the residence, was ...

10 years ago
A propane leak is to blame for a home explosion in Butler County. Officials tell KWCH that the blast leveled the home on Kansas Highway 254 about 5:00 Sunday morning. The explosion could be heard by residents up to 20-miles away. The force of the blast also blew out the windows of a nearby residence. Authorities say that ...

10 years ago
Vandals hit a private cemetery in south-central Kansas with graves dating to the 1800s during the Memorial Day weekend. Kingman County Deputy Amber Barratti says about 10 to 15 headstones were knocked down in the private cemetery in northeast Kingman County near Cheney. Investigators believe the vandalism occurred late Saturday or early Sunday. No arrests have been ...

10 years ago
Kansas City, Kansas, investigators say they believe they have identified a potential suspect in the 26-year-old unsolved murder of a 19-year-old woman and an unresolved slaying five years later. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1THpTxK) reports that detectives perhaps have a link between the 1989 killing of Sarah Jo DeLeon, the unsolved 1994 slaying of Diana Marie ...

10 years ago
A large crowd of over 100 strong gathered on an overcast  Memorial Day Monday in Salina to remember, and honor, those who have died so that we might all be free. Following brief cemetery services at Gypsum Hill Cemetery and at Roselawn Cemetery, events culminated with a large gathering at the Saline County War Memorial in ...

10 years ago
The Commander of Salina American Legion Post #62 was absent from Memorial Day activities Monday, after he was injured in a Sunday motorcycle crash. The crash happened in rural Ottawa County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 62-year-old Stanley Britt was riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle, headed east on K-18 Highway. For an unknown reason he lost ...

10 years ago
A Salina businessman says he is rebuilding what will be the deepest-diving submarine owned by a private individual once it's done. KSHB-TV reports Salina resident Scott Waters bought a Pisces VI submarine from storage and had it shipped to his hometown in middle of the country. Waters, who owns several Kansas hardware stores, says he paid $30,000 ...