10 years ago
At a packed special meeting Tuesday morning Salina City Commissioners approved the Fieldhouse Salina project. Commissioners selected a new design, and a way to fund it. In 2015 the city agreed to contribute up to $4.5 million to the project, with supporters raising private funds for the rest. The project was initially expected to cost $9 ...

10 years ago
A Salina man is accused of stealing a pistol. Police arrested 22-year-old Mikal Terrell on a failure to appear warrant last Friday and found him in possession of a firearm. Police later confirmed the Cobra .380 caliber handgun had been stolen from a home in the 2500 block of S. Ohio sometime between February 8th and 9th. The ...

10 years ago
An Ohio man is behind bars in the Saline County Jail for having sex with a girl under the age of 16. Police arrested 27-year-old Jacob L. Pina on a warrant request for an incident that allegedly occurred in 2014. Police say the victim contacted authorities after she was held against her will and sexually molested at ...

10 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a residential burglary east of Salina. Captain Roger Soldan reports that Greg Newton contacted authorities after he went to add to his coin collection on Sunday and discovered it was missing. Deputies say sometime between January 16th and February 14th, someone entered the home in the 3200 block of E. ...

10 years ago
Protesters gathered outside of the Great Bend School District offices. A large crowd gathered Monday to speak out against the district's response to an alleged sexual assault on a school bus carrying the Great Bend High School boys' swim team on February 6th. KAKE reports that Great Bend students surrounded Superintendent Brad Reed as he exited the ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas law enforcement would be required to file a missing person report within two hours of receiving a minimum amount of information under a bill approved by a Senate committee. The measure that passed Monday in the Senate Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee sets a specific time period in which the report ...

10 years ago
A new bill being discussed in Topeka would link Kansas with six other states around the nation that have a maximum speed limit of 80 miles per hour. If HB 2450 becomes law - Kansas would join South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah in allowing drivers to travel at 80-mph on designated separated, multi-lane ...

10 years ago
Bill Snead, an award-winning news photographer from Kansas whose career included covering wars and national political conventions, has died. He was 78. Snead's wife, Dona (DOH-nuh) Snead, said Monday that Snead died at his Lawrence home Sunday after struggling for several months with advanced lung cancer. Snead spent 21 years with The Washington Post, including as a ...

10 years ago
Police were called to a Salina neighborhood after a couple of men wrestled an airsoft gun away from a would-be robber in the 100 block of E. Prescott. Police arrested 31-year-old Danny Lee Barnhouse early Saturday morning after he allegedly pointed a realistic looking assault rifle at Nicholas Briggs and demanded money. Police say Briggs and his ...

10 years ago
A Salina man was treated at the hospital for stab wounds and kept for observation after being attacked by a known suspect. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a man in his 40's was reportedly driving an acquaintance to the Howard Johnson Inn, 222 E. Diamond Drive on Sunday night around 7:30pm. The victim told ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A union representing Kansas teachers has filed two district court lawsuits alleging three teachers were removed from their positions without independent hearings, even though they earned tenure before the state Legislature repealed teacher protections in 2014. The lawsuits filed by the Kansas National Education Association come as the union and the state ...