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 ...

10 years ago
A Chevy Camaro reported stolen over the weekend - was actually towed off the interstate after some miscommunications. Saline County Undersheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that Auto House Towing, 565 Westport Blvd., contacted authorities on Monday after seeing reports in the media about the stolen Camaro. The car which was left near the Assaria Falun Exit ...

10 years ago
A country music icon is coming to Salina. Loretta Lynn is coming to the Stiefel Theatre. Loretta Lynn first arrived in Nashville 55 years ago, signing her first recording contract on February 1, 1960, and within a matter of weeks, she was at her first recording session. A self-taught guitarist and songwriter, Lynn became one of ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was swindled for over $90,000 after responding to a robo call he thought was from the Internal Revenue Service. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a man in his 70's who lives in central Salina was convinced a phone call from a scammer was from the IRS - and he began to ...

10 years ago
About 100 people gathered in Salina Monday evening to remember and honor the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando. Early Sunday morning 49 people were killed and more than 50 others were wounded by a shooter in a gay night club in Orlando, Florida. The gunman was eventually killed in a shootout with police. The North ...