10 years ago
A portion of Salina's East Crawford Recreation Area could soon be going to the dogs. A location for a new dog park in Salina has been recommended. For the past year, public input has been gathered on three possible locations for a proposed new dog park. The locations under consideration were Jerry Ivey Park, Indian Rock ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of a man's personal items and cash while he was staying at the Salina Rescue Mission, 1716 Summers Road. Police say 39-year-old Jason Hottman told officers that someone stole $2,000 in cash from a box he had in storage at the facility sometime between 6pm on July 5th and 6pm ...

10 years ago
The Kansas Lottery is reporting a record high $155 million in lottery and casino gambling revenues during the fiscal year that just ended. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the state received $80 million from its share of profits from the three state owned and operated casinos in Kansas City, Mulvane and Dodge City. That was about ...

10 years ago
Kansas has fined AT&T for overcharging the state's Lifeline program for a third year in a row. The Wichita Eagle reports the Kansas Corporation Commission fined the company $15,000 for overcharging the state's Lifeline program by about $100,000 last year. AT&T received $476,000 in Lifeline credit last year. AT&T also paid $4,750 in December for overcharging more ...

10 years ago
The American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that a federal court needs to directly strike down the same-sex marriage ban in Kansas in the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the issue. Its latest filing Tuesday in the ongoing lawsuit opposes the state's efforts to have the case simply dismissed as moot now ...

10 years ago
Sen. Jerry Moran's re-election campaign says the campaign has more than $2.3 million in cash on hand for the 2016 general election. The Wichita Eagle reports Moran, a Hays Republican, took in more than $914,000 during the second quarter of 2015. Moran started the year with about $1.4 million in the bank. Moran who won the seat ...

10 years ago
The rain this summer is a welcome change from the past couple of summers that produced drought conditions around central Kansas. While it has helped keep the area green, it has not helped outdoor construction projects. Salina City Manager Jason Gage tells KSAL News that wet conditions have slowed down progress on a major project on ...

10 years ago
A woman from Southgate, Michigan contacted Salina Police after she was allegedly scammed on Craig's List. Denise Balogh told officers she tried to buy a car online in early July. The seller asked her to send $1,600 via Western Union. Police say the transaction was picked up at the Salina Wal-Mart on South Broadway. The ...

10 years ago
A domestic dispute boils over on Interstate-70. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office arrested a couple from Wichita, after their return trip from Colorado turned into an argument and drug charges for both. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that on Tuesday afternoon at 5:30pm officers were called to mile post #240, about 4-miles from the ...

10 years ago
A Kansas animal control officer says she was skeptical when a man called to report a 4-foot-long carp in a drainage ditch. But Jamie Schmidt, a school resource officer with the Olathe, Kansas, Police Department, soon found herself wrapping up the 60-pound dead fish in trash bags and using a lift to get it into her ...

10 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after another victim discovers her account information was stolen from a skimming device used at a Sunflower Bank drive up ATM. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that a Salina woman contacted police after noticing two withdrawals were made from her checking account from ATM's in Ardmore, Oklahoma and an unnamed location ...