11 years ago
The Kansas Department of Transportation says more Kansans are buckling up than ever before. Transportation Secretary Mike King said in a statement Monday that 86 percent of drivers and front-seat passengers were observed to be wearing seat belts in 2014. That's up from just 61 percent in 2003. Although the state beat its target for 2014, its ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is accused of beating a woman he lived with in a south central Salina home. According to Captain Chris Trocheck, 30-year-old Zachary T. Gonzales was arrested on Saturday after a 30-year-old woman told officers about an incident that took place on April 23rd. Police say Gonzales is facing charges of domestic battery for dragging, ...

11 years ago
Salina Police are investigating vandalism to patrol units at the Kansas Highway Patrol Center. Police say sometime between April 20th and April 24th, someone removed 2 lug nuts and loosened the remaining lugs on a 2013 Chevy Tahoe. Another patrol unit on the lot also had a lug nut removed.   A woman's cell phone is stolen ...

11 years ago
A Salina man is arrested for threatening to blow up the hospital. Police officers were called to Salina Regional Health Center, 400 S. Santa Fe Ave. on Saturday afternoon at 3pm after staff allegedly overheard 33-year-old Stephen M. Pyle make threats to blow up the building. Police Captain Chris Trocheck tells KSAL News that Pyle was taken ...

11 years ago
The mystery of the balloon that crash-landed into a southeast Missouri field has been solved - it was a Google Loon. The balloon hovering at 70,000 feet lost its signal Thursday afternoon and ended up in a field near Bragg City, Missouri. A program director for Google told Pemiscot County Deputy Anthony Dale that Google started the ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators are close to the end of their annual spring break and plan to reconvene this week at the Statehouse to wrap up their business for the year. The House and Senate are scheduled to be back in session Wednesday. Lawmakers must balance the next state budget, and their research staff says they must close a ...

11 years ago
The website of a Topeka arts districts has been restored after it was hacked. The main page of the North Topeka Arts District site was replaced last week with an image of a masked man holding a firearm. A message in garbled English read, in part, "I am Muslim & I love jihad. I love ISIS ...

11 years ago
South-central Kansas authorities are expressing concerns about accidental shootings. Wichita police Lieutenant James Espinoza says there have been seven accidental shootings in the city through April 20th. In the past couple weeks alone, a 32-year-old woman died in her home. Her husband told police he was removing his gun from its holster when it discharged. Also ...

11 years ago
To be in Kansas. Not to be: Anywhere else but Kansas State University in Manhattan. The question: When will "First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare," a national traveling exhibition of Shakespeare's First Folio, be on campus? That question has been answered with the date set for the exhibition, which is based on one of the world's ...

11 years ago
The application deadline for those wanting to sell fireworks in Salina and Saline County is approaching. Officials are spreading the word that the deadline is in mid-May. The Saline County Planning Department would like to notify the public that applications for a temporary fireworks stand must be submitted on or before 5:00 p.m. on May 20th. ...

11 years ago
Kansas is expected to increase taxes to close a budget shortfall, but Republicans who control the Legislature don't yet agree on the outlines of a plan. Republican Governor Sam Brownback wants to protect major income tax cuts he pushed legislators to enact in 2012 and 2013 to help stimulate the economy. He's proposing to slow down future ...