11 years ago
Police are looking for a woman who left behind a counterfeit $100 bill at a convenience store counter on Tuesday afternoon. Police say a suspect described as a black woman with blonde hair wearing a bright pink shirt, attempted to buy cigarettes and some other small items at the Kwik Shop at 1600 S. 9th at ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office releases more details about the events that led up to a lockdown at Ell-Saline Junior / Senior High School. According to Captain Roger Soldan, eight students were involved in an online discussion with 18-year-old Joshua Downey of Tescott on Tuesday morning. The Facebook chat took a chilling turn when Downey allegedly ...

11 years ago
State and national agricultural workers are planning to set traps across the state to prevent the spread of a destructive beetle. The state announced Tuesday that 163 traps will be set to catch the emerald ash borer and detect unknown populations. The traps will be set in 23 counties starting this month. The beetle kills North American ...

11 years ago
Firefighters were on the scene of a working fire in Downtown Salina Tuesday evening. Crews were called at around 9:45 to the report of smoke coming from the area of Laura's Antiques at 109 S. Santa Fe. No flames were visible from the outside, but a working fire was discovered on the second floor above the ...

11 years ago
A high-speed pursuit along Interstate 70 ended east of Salina Tuesday afternoon. Trooper Ben Gardner from the Kansas Highway Patrol tells KSAL News that it started at around 1:30, when a trooper attempted a traffic stop about 9 miles west of Salina on a black passenger car that was headed east. Instead of stopping , the ...

11 years ago
A transient with a guitar prompts the brief lockdown of a Saline County School Tuesday morning. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, a woman driving on Interstate-70 pulled over to tell a Kansans Highway Patrol Trooper she thought she had seen a man with a long gun at the Halstead exit on I-70 just west ...

11 years ago
At least six school districts in Kansas plan to close a few days early this May because of budget concerns. A K-12 block grant bill, which cut about $50 million in operating and maintenance aid from the budgets of most school districts in the state, went into effect for the current school year. According to superintendents, school ...

11 years ago
Kansas State University student Joshua Nelson, a junior in physics from Salina, is the university's newest Barry M. Goldwater scholar. Aaron Messerla, a junior in mathematics from Manhattan, is a Goldwater scholar honorable mention. Established by the U.S. Congress in 1986 to honor Sen. Barry M. Goldwater from Arizona, the Goldwater scholarship is awarded to approximately ...

11 years ago
With more than 30 years of experience as a pilot, business owner, consultant, researcher and professor, Tara Harl is the new airport management program lead at Kansas State University Salina. Harl is the first full-time faculty member hired specifically for the program since it was established in 2011. "Aviation is in our blood — we are ...

11 years ago
Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected priestly child abuser in the first known case of a pope sanctioning bishops for covering up for pedophiles. The Vatican said Tuesday that Bishop Robert Finn had offered his resignation under the code of canon law ...

11 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says a Marion man must serve more than 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to lewd contact with a 9-year-old child. A Marion County judge sentenced 47-year-old Kenneth Newell to 177 months in prison on Monday. Newell was charged with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child younger than ...