10 years ago
Salina Police are searching for a known male suspect who allegedly held a knife to a young woman's throat. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, an argument turned violent in a room at the Airliner Motel, 781 N. Broadway on Tuesday night around 8:15pm. The late-teens victim told police the man attempted to strangle her then threatened her ...

10 years ago
Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a break-in at a storage building. According to Lt. Mike Ascher, someone damaged a garage door to enter a storage building located in the 1300 block of West North Street on Thursday between 5pm and 6pm. Deputies say a spool of welding wire valued at $500 was stolen. Total loss and damage ...

10 years ago
Police are looking for a vehicle reported stolen from a Salina car rental business. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a 2015 Hyundai Elantra was stolen from the lot at Hertz Rental, 3230 Arnold Ave sometime between late November and December 31, 2015. Staff at Hertz told officers the car was  last accounted for on the ...

10 years ago
Sometime between February 10, 2016 at 9:00PM and 8:00AM February 11, 2016, unknown suspect(s) burglarized two vehicles in the 700 block of N. Palmer Street in Brookville, KS. The vehicles, which had been left unlocked, had guns and ammunition stolen from them. One gun is described as a black Ruger Mark III model 10107, .22 caliber ...

10 years ago
One person was killed Thursday when a vehicle they were driving was hit by  a car fleeing a Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol the two-vehicle fatality crash happened in Topeka after a brief KHP pursuit. The crash occurred at the intersection of 6th Avenue and Gage Boulevard, which is south of ...

10 years ago
SAWATOMIE, Kan. (AP) - The former police chief for an eastern Kansas town has been arrested on charges including witness intimidation. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says in a release that Robert Butters, former Osawatomie police chief, was arrested Thursday and is being held on $250,000 bond in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Jail records, however, show Butter's ...

10 years ago
Fort Riley is preparing to welcome home a large group of soldiers. According to the Army, more than 200 Soldiers with the "Durable" brigade are set to return soon from a nine-month deployment to Kuwait. While deployed, the brigade’s Soldiers were responsible for planning, oversight and resources for troops in five countries and 13 locations. The brigade supported ...

10 years ago
Chad and Hannah from the "Y-Wake Up Show" hit the air running Thursday morning as KSAL's sister stations Y93.7FM and Sunny 102.5FM kicked off a two day radiothon to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. "It always blows me away how generous this audience is," Y93.7's Chad Allen said Thursday. "We just open the phone ...

10 years ago
An effort by Kansas lawmakers to repeal Common Core standards could also mean the end to Advanced Placement Classes and International Baccalaureate programs. The Wichita Eagle reports the House Education Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would compel Kansas school districts to develop new standards for reading, math, science and other subjects. Those standards would replace Common ...

10 years ago
One watchman on the wall is hoping the lack of severe weather won't lull Salinans to sleep this spring. "My concern is that people sometime become complacent because not much has been happening around here," said KSAL's Storm Spotter Henry Diehl. Kansas had an above average number of confirmed tornadoes last year, but those living in central ...

10 years ago
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship when people register to vote at state motor vehicle offices. A federal lawsuit filed Thursday contends the documents requirement violates the National Voter Registration Act, a federal law that aims to increase voter participation by eligible citizens. That law is sometimes called the ...