12 years ago
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is shuffling his administration, naming the head of the state's aging and disabilities agency to be his new budget director. The governor announced Tuesday that Shawn Sullivan, secretary of the Department for Aging and Disabilities Services, will be the state's new budget director. He takes over for Jon Hummel, who had filled ...

12 years ago
It's an award that will come as no surprise to former students of a longtime Salina teacher and volunteer. The Salina Community Foundation on Tuesday named Ken Miller as the 2014 recipient of the Salina Award for Outstanding Citizenship. Miller, known to his students as "Bio-Ken", spent a career as an inspiring science teacher ...

12 years ago
USD 305 is inviting children over to lunch during the summer. Superintendent Bill Hall tells KSAL News that the continuation of the free summer meal program will swing into action on Tuesday May 27th, "Last year we had over 3,900 breakfast and over 25,000 lunches that were served," he said. "This year we've added South High School ...

12 years ago
The City of Salina and the Salina Police Department have recently received numerous complaints regarding panhandlers in the community. "Panhandling is more of a societal problem than it is a law enforcement issue," according to the departments. "An easy solution to the panhandling problem is to not give money to panhandlers." "Giving them money discourages from ...

12 years ago
A man killed in an explosion at a Salina Park is identified. Salina Police say that 46-year-old Wayne Guerrant died from injuries he sustained when a pipe bomb exploded in Jerry Ivey Park. First responders were called to the park at around 12:30 Monday afternoon to the report of an explosion. The first officer on the scene ...

12 years ago
Weather patterns more like the heart of summer than late May have some forecasters concerned that Kansas could be in store for continued hot and dry conditions. Others aren't quite ready to jump on the drought bandwagon, even though high-temperature records were broken three times in Wichita earlier this month, including the earliest 100-degree ...

12 years ago
Officials of a Topeka school district say a teenager who died in a traffic accident had received his diploma just hours earlier. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Ronnie Graham was alone in his pickup truck when it struck a tree on a residential street around 3:30 a.m. Monday. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Graham had just ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol is asking for the public's help in finding a vehicle involved in a recent hit and run death. According to the agency, back on May 3rd troopers responded to a call of an injured female on the west shoulder of US-81 highway at Vale Road, north of Concordia. The victim, identified ...

12 years ago
A man is killed in an explosion at a Salina Park. First responders were called to Jerry Ivey Park at around 12:30 Monday afternoon to the report of an explosion. The first officer on the scene found a truck parked near a restroom facility at the south end of the park badly damaged and on ...

12 years ago
State lottery officials say a $2 million winning ticket was sold to a player in northeast Kansas during the weekend Powerball drawing. Officials declined to say Monday exactly where the ticket was drawn. The lottery's northeast Kansas zone covers 21 counties. The winning ticket matched the first five numbers drawn Saturday, which were 23-32-39-47-49. The Powerball was ...

12 years ago
Salina Police make an arrest in connection to an aggravated burglary case. Jason Duffy, 29, of Salina was booked into Saline Co. Jail after allegedly stealing a playstation 3 gaming console and a CO2 BB gun from an apartment in the 1400 block of East Iron on April 25. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL news that there ...