12 years ago
A man that was critically burned while trying to save two dogs from a house fire Wednesday in Salina has died. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 49-year-old Darrell Pattillo died at a Wichita hospital. Salina Fire Marshall Roger Williams tells KSAL News that crews were called to the report of a fire at ...

12 years ago
Authorities say an inmate's death at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth is being investigated as an apparent homicide. Forty-eight-year-old Jeremy Nemerov died Monday night at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. Prison spokesman Treavor Kroger says was found unresponsive in his cell on April 24, the day after he arrived at the prison. An ...

12 years ago
Triple digit heat in Salina sets a record. According to the National Weather Service, the high temperature in Salina on Tuesday was a record 101 degrees. It is the second earliest 100+ degree reading ever. The Earliest was 105 on April 23, 1989. It's the second time in three days a record was set in Salina. On ...

12 years ago
A delegation from the Republic of Armenia is visiting Kansas to observe a state training exercise and receive instruction on responding to bio hazards. The events are part of an ongoing exchange between Armenia and the Kansas National Guard through a program administered by the National Guard Bureau. On Tuesday, the delegation was in Emporia to watch ...

12 years ago
Nearly a half dozen people on the May list of Salina's Most Wanted are caught. The latest list of Salina's Most Wanted went on-line Saturday. Since then, five have been arrested. Those arrested include Adam Humphrey, Aaron Grant, Michael Hightower, Jaree Johnson, and Phoenix Stone. They were wanted for crimes that include felony drug crimes, battery on a ...

12 years ago
A burn ban for Saline County that has been in effect since March is extended for another seven days. According to Saline County Emergency Management Director Hannah Stambaugh, dry and windy weather conditions continue to create an extreme fire hazard in the grass and crop lands of Saline County. Once started, fires are difficult to ...

12 years ago
A southeast Kansas woman died after she was hit by a car in a bank's drive-thru lane. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 83-year-old Gloria Pefley died Monday at the Bank of Commerce in Chanute. The patrol says Pefley got out of a car she was riding in and walked in front of the vehicle. The vehicle hit ...

12 years ago
Crews continue to replace the lighting in downtown Salina. Tuesday morning, employees with Precision Electric Contractors of Salina were lowering light towers in a parking lot at 7th Street and Iron, then swapping old halogen bulbs with new LED lamps. Robert Lepping with Precision tells KSAL News that the digger truck holds the pole in place while ...

12 years ago
A Kansas sports promoter is looking for someone interested in buying the ball that was used in the first Olympic gold medal basketball game. The undersized, deflated ball that's stitched together like a volleyball has been in Canada since a player's wife slipped it under a blanket after the 1936 championship game in Berlin. The U.S. team ...

12 years ago
A Salina woman is arrested after pulling a knife on a bondsman. Police were called to Casey's General Store at 215 W. Crawford Tuesday morning. Melinda Seward, a bondsman from Concordia was attempting to arrest Jonathan Mangold, 26, of Council Grove for not fulfilling his bond when Kimberlie Damron, 22, allegedly approached her with a box ...

12 years ago
Police say a car found with a decomposing body inside belonged to a man missing since February. The car was found Monday morning at a Maize apartment complex when police were called to investigate a bad smell. McPherson police said Monday the car belonged to 54-year-old Adam Sabri, who co-owns a sports bar in McPherson. The body ...