12 years ago
Salina Police will be out in force Friday evening – looking for seat belt violations. Lt. Russ Lamer tells KSAL News that four officers and one spotter will be working around the city, from 9pm Friday to 1am Saturday, looking for occupants who are not buckled up. Lt. Lamer says that citations for unrestrained adults are $10 ...

12 years ago
Despite a fire that damaged its longtime home and the loss of a major sponsor, a central Kansas camp is still providing hope for children with cancer. The aptly-named Camp Hope is offering its services again this week on the Barton Community College campus in Great Bend. The camp was forced to move from Camp Aldrich in ...

12 years ago
A group that has worked for three years to restore the Joyland amusement park in Wichita is calling it quits. Kira Johnson, who led the three-year effort, says a lack of time and money led the group to disband. The nearly $10,500 raised by the group will be reimbursed and then donated to other groups. Joyland operated ...

12 years ago
Garden City authorities say a Kansas inmate who was mistakenly released in Missouri has been recaptured in Garden City. Police say 36-year-old Sean McKenzie was arrested Thursday when officers responded to a report of a child in need of care. McKenzie allegedly was living at a home under several aliases. He was booked into Finney County ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas woman has been sentenced to 20 months behind bars for her role in last year's killing of a 68-year-old Manhattan man she described as a longtime friend. 49-year-old Christina Love will also spend 18 months on probation under the sentence she received in Riley County District Court. Love, her son and a third man ...

12 years ago
Nebraska authorities say dual tornadoes that touched down in a small town about 100 miles northwest of Omaha killed a 5-year-old and injured at least 19 people, some of them critically. It happened in Pilger, a community of about 350. The National Weather Service says the twin twisters touched down within roughly a mile of each other. A ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are investigating several non-related scam cases. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, a 69-year-old Salina man contacted police on Friday and told them how he nearly lost $5,000 to a scam that came through his Facebook account. An entity called "World Hearing" told him he had won a big prize and could claim it if ...

12 years ago
A deputy's traffic stop turns into an arrest. According to Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, a deputy on patrol observed a driver bounce his car off two curbs in the 300 block of S. Chicago early Saturday morning around 2:20am. The officer arrested 25-year-old Shane Sonnier of Salina on charges of DUI. A drug sniffing dog was also ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman is arrested after pointing a gun at a neighbor. Officers were called to the 900 block of Vassar on Saturday night around 10:15pm, after neighbors called police about a woman who was making threats with a gun. Police say 59-year-old Martha Clemmons-Krier flashed a .22 caliber revolver from her porch and shouted at her ...

12 years ago
The Salina Stiefel Theatre Monday announced two Christmas shows. Trace Adkins will perform on December 6th, and Michael McDonald will perform on December 16th. Trace Adkins will bring the Christmas Show 2014 Tour featuring his twelve-piece "Sarepta Symphony". According to the Stiefel, show is a reverent, family-friendly theatrical production, featuring songs from Adkins' Celtic Christmas album, The ...

12 years ago
A robbery is halted before it can take place. Salina Police made three arrests Sunday night after an eyewitness called authorities about the suspicious behavior of three males in a car near Pump Mart at 1118 N. 9th. Officers responded to the area and found the suspects in a 2000 Mercury Sable in the 400 block of ...