11 years ago
If advance voting is any indication, long lines should't be an isssue at polling places today. Voters in Salina who do head to the polls will decide local city commission and school board races. Saline County Clerk Don Merriman tells KSAL News that there has not been a lot of interest shown so far. "Advance voting ...

11 years ago
A federal judge has delayed sentencing for a Kansas metal finishing business and its owner while he mulls over arguments and decides on his proposed findings. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree said Monday he would enter an order later in the case against C&R Plating and owner Kevin L. Cline. Cline and his company have admitted discharging ...

11 years ago
An Ellsworth man has won a big lottery prize. According to the Kansas Lottery, Alan Marez and his family hopped for joy Easter morning when they discovered Marez had won a $10,000 lottery prize. “We went to Easter sunrise service,” said the 71-year-old Ellsworth resident. “I had purchased a $2 scratch ticket the night before, which I ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are looking for two suspects who damaged a golf cart and the grounds at the Great Life Golf Course. Police say criminal damage was done by two suspects sometime between 2am and 10am Sunday morning on the 8th hole, after someone drove the cart through the sand traps and did donuts on the putting ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after stereo equipment was stolen from two pickups parked at a business. Police report no damage to neither 1991 and 1998 Chevy pickups that were parked at Rhino Linings, 1326 State Street. Police say someone removed an Alpine receiver and amp plus 3 subwoofers from the trucks. Total loss is listed ...

11 years ago
Singer, songwriter, actor,  and reality TV star Harry Connick Jr. highlights four acts coming to Salina announced by the Stiefel Theatre Monday. Harry Connick Jr. was first best known as a talented singer-songwriter. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. He is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States, with ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating widespread damage to area mailboxes. Deputies were called to sixteen different homes after the mailboxes were dented or completely knocked off the post by someone who was swinging a baseball bat or stick. The vandalism occurred sometime between Saturday night from 8pm to Sunday morning at 7:30am. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells ...

11 years ago
An evening meal turns violent at a Salina restaurant. Police arrested 19-year-old Alexander J. O'Brien on Saturday after an altercation inside the Hong Kong Buffet, 2515 Market, around 8pm. According to Captain Chris Trockeck, a Salina couple had befriended a homeless man from Oregon who landed in Salina after being kicked off a Greyhound Bus. Police say O'Brien ...

11 years ago
It's been decades since Greensburg offered people a movie theater. That will change this month when the Twilight Theater opens, about 25 years after it closed and eight years after a tornado destroyed most of the Kiowa County town. Grand opening events are scheduled for April 24-25. The theater opened in 1917 and was a hub of activity ...

11 years ago
State wildlife officials say chronic wasting disease has spread to six counties in southwest Kansas. The disease, which is fatal to deer and elk, had already been found in three northwest Kansas counties. So far, the disease had not been passed to humans or livestock. Counties where new cases of the disease have been found are Gray, ...

11 years ago
The retrial of a Kanoplis man convicted of a fatal stabbing at a Salina bar back in 2003 begins its second week Monday in Saline County District Court. Jerry Bird of Salina was stabbed in the heart at the Red Kitten Bar, which was located on Holiday Drive in Salina, on February 8th, 2003. Bird died ...