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A man accused of firing a shot that killed a Salina teen last spring was back in court Thursday afternoon. Saline County District Court Judge Renee Young ruled on multiple pretrial motions for 22-year-old Macio Palacio Jr., who is scheduled to go on trial May 9th in connection with the shooting death of 17-year-old Allie Saum. After ...

10 years ago
Over the past 30 days a team from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, (CALEA) has been looking at all aspects of the Salina Police Department's policies and practices as part of its re-accreditation process. It is an audit process that has been in place since 1996 according to Salina's Chief of Police Brad ...

10 years ago
Two Salina schools will be honored. According to USD 305, Oakdale Elementary School and Central High School are receiving 2015 Challenge Awards. The awards are based on Kansas Assessment results from 2015 and other qualifying factors, such as ethnicity and socio-economic status. Central High School is being honored as a result of its performance on 11th grade ...

10 years ago
One of five men accused in a case involving the shooting death of a Salina teen last spring was back in court Thursday morning as his trial date approaches. 19-year-old Stephen Gentry is scheduled to be the first person to face trial in connection with the shooting death of 17-year-old Allie Saum. He is scheduled to ...

10 years ago
A measure designed to protect hunting, fishing and trapping in Kansas faces a final legislative vote that will determine whether it goes on the ballot in November. The Senate planned to take final action Thursday on a proposal to add a new provision to the state constitution's Bill of Rights declaring that people have a right ...

10 years ago
Republican legislators in Kansas are divided over redistributing education funds. The GOP-dominated Senate Ways and Means Committee approved a bill Thursday that would reallocate $38 million of the state's more than $4 billion in aid for its 286 school districts in 2016-17. The plan from committee Chairman Ty Masterson would boost state aid for 100 districts but ...

10 years ago
Expert witnesses in the capital murder trial of an eastern Kansan man are testifying about how three adults and a toddler died. A forensic pathologist who performed the autopsies and a forensic entomology expert who examined maggots were among the witnesses called this week to testify in the trial of Kyle Flack. The 30-year-old Ottawa man is ...

10 years ago
Jeromey and Vicki Balaun are a husband and wife team at home and on the job - as Managers at Salina's Carlos O'Kelly's. The couple was recently recognized as the chain's best managers with the company's Presidents Award. Vicki stopped by the KSAL Morning News on Wednesday with a look at the rise in the restaurant's sales ...

10 years ago
A path for helping to pay for revitalization projects in downtown Salina may be blocked by legislative wrangling in Topeka. Salina stakeholders have submitted an application for finance assistance through the state's STAR bond program to help pay for a cornerstone fieldhouse project, car museum, upscale hotel and bowling alley. The Salina project is caught in the ...

10 years ago
Wichita police are reviewing video from a gas station where two college students say they were attacked by a white man shouting racial epithets and the name of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Lt. Jeff Gilmore says the video provides a view of the weekend altercation that's being investigated as a potential hate crime. The Wichita ...

10 years ago
Police are looking for two people who are accused of a beating and theft early Wednesday morning. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that two men showed up at a home at 719 N. 7th Street at 12:19 Wednesday morning. Allegedly, the men forced 36-year-old Jose Julia outside. They beat and kicked him until he was unconscious. The two ...