11 years ago
A half dozen people on the March list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line back on March 7th. Since then, six have been arrested. The Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that Aris Angel, Heahter Davis, Carla Gonzales, Timothy Hurt, Oscar Jones, and Evan Stark-Ennis all have ...

11 years ago
The U.S. appears to be locked in a tornado drought as meteorologists have recorded only about two-dozen twisters so far this year during a period when 100 or more are typical. And there have been no reports of tornadoes so far in March, a sometimes violent period for severe weather. The last time there were no ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a known suspect after a reported rape. Captain Chris Trocheck tells KSAL News that police are searching for a white, male in his 20's who allegedly raped a woman in a north Salina home on Thursday evening. Police say the two are acquaintances. The woman who is in her 20's reported the assault ...

11 years ago
A month's long drug investigation leads to five arrests at a Salina motel. According to Drug Task Force Commander Lt. Bill Cox, police used search warrants in two different rooms at the Airliner Motel, 781 N. Broadway on Thursday night. Police say information about drug activity at the motel sparked the investigation, while confidential informants who bought ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators are advancing a proposal aimed at protecting religious groups on public college campuses that want to restrict their memberships to people who share their beliefs. The Senate approved the measure Thursday on a 30-8 vote. It goes next to the House. The bill says that state universities, community colleges and technical colleges can't refuse to ...

11 years ago
Kansas universities would be required to publicize information on their graduates' average salaries, student loan debt and employment under a bill passed by the Senate. The bill passed the chamber on a 27-11 vote Thursday. Supporters say the measure would help prospective students make informed decisions on which university and major to choose by requiring institutions to ...

11 years ago
School districts suing Kansas over education funding are asking the Kansas Supreme Court to keep their entire lawsuit before a lower court. Attorneys for the four districts asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the state's appeal of a recent decision from a three-judge Shawnee County District Court panel. The panel ruled in December that the ...

11 years ago
A vacated former Salina hospital that was the source of a lawsuit between Salina Regional Health Center and the City of Salina has been sold. Salina Regional Health Center announced Thursday afternoon that it has completed the sale of the former St. John’s hospital to an out-of-town developer. In December a dispute about the proposed demolition ...

11 years ago
A Kansas House panel has endorsed a resolution that would begin a process for amending the U.S. Constitution. The House Federal and State Affairs Committee approved the resolution Thursday. It calls on the U.S. Congress to organize a convention of states that would consider amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Thirty-three other state legislatures would have to ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating damage to fiber optic cable owned by a communications company out of Galva. Deputies say someone may have been looking for copper to steal when they damaged the cable that was left at a worksite near Waterwell Road and Burma. Thieves also took a battery from a trailer owned by ...

11 years ago
A stolen car is recovered with the thief in the driver's seat. Salina Police officers waited in unmarked cars yesterday for 25-year-old Ngamo Debo to pull into the Ace Home Center on South Broadway - then arrested him. Captain Chris Trocheck tells KSAL News that Debo had allegedly stolen a 2007 Ford 500 from the parking lot ...