12 years ago
The Douglas County District Attorney's office says it's no longer looking into an NCAA basketball tournament lottery conducted by Rep. Tim Huelskamp. Huelskamp's campaign took exception to a release earlier this month from Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson announcing that a Huelskamp raffle for two tickets to the NCAA regional in St. Louis violated Kansas ...

12 years ago
Voting rights groups are appealing a judge's decision requiring federal election officials to help Kansas and Arizona enforce state laws requiring new voters to document their U.S. citizenship. A court filing on Friday sent to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals seeks review of this month's ruling by U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren. The judge ordered ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a shooting last night. Captain Sean Morton tells KSAL News that details will be released as officers learn more about a male who was shot and taken to the emergency room at Salina Regional Heath Center. Staff at the hospital contacted police Thursday night at 10:48pm after the victim arrived for treatment of ...

12 years ago
University of Kansas students will not have to pay a $25-per-semester fee for athletics, but will pay two other fees beginning in the fall. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said Thursday she would uphold a vote taken March 12 by the Student Senate to eliminate a fee that supported women's and non-revenue sports. However, beginning this fall, students will ...

12 years ago
McPherson police say they have found a vehicle connected to a suspicious death in the town. Police say two people discovered the body of a white male between 20 and 30 years old Thursday outside a storage shed in a central Kansas town. The department did not say where the 2010 Ford Focus was ...

12 years ago
State officials are reminding Kansans who fall behind on electric and natural gas bills that they will lose some protection against shutoffs next week. The utility-regulating Kansas Corporation Commission notes that Monday is the last effective day of the annual Cold Weather Rule. The rule is in effect every year from November through the following March. It ...

12 years ago
Kansas residents who served in the military may now get the word "veteran" printed on their state-issued driver's licenses and photo ID cards. The Department of Revenue announced this week that the service is available to veterans with an honorable or general discharge or a general discharge under honorable conditions. To obtain the printing, veterans must provide ...

12 years ago
Registered voters who live in the USD 305 School District began receiving ballots this week for the first-ever mail in election in Salina. About 28,000 ballots were delivered to the Salina Post Office last Friday. They began to go out in the mail on Monday, and started arriving in mailboxes on Tuesday. The ballots, which contain ...

12 years ago
A one-of-a-kind art collection was unveiled in Salina Thursday evening. Family, friends, and art lovers joined Salinans Ken and June Jennision to celebrate the debut of the "Jennison Collection". The Jennison's have been collecting the Smoky Hill River Festival signature "Festival Print" since the artwork first became available in 1982. A limited number of the orignal prints ...

12 years ago
A hushed courtroom heard a co-defendant testify how he beat, strangled, held her face in mud, and finally held a Salina woman's face under water to kill her. A murder trial for Dane DeWeese, one of three people accused in the Spring 2013 disappearance and murder of 27-year-old Kristin Tyler continued Thursday in Saline County District ...

12 years ago
USD 305 Superintendent Bill Hall is hoping the public will mark their ballot and mail it in before the April 8th deadline. Hall, stopped into the KSAL Morning News Thursday with a look at some of the issues and numbers associated with the upcoming bond issue, "If it gets close to the deadline like the 4th ...