12 years ago
Two photocopied pieces of paper taped to the front door of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site is letting visitors in Topeka know the building is closed because of the federal government shutdown. Across Kansas, thousands of government employees were reporting to work Tuesday to prepare their offices for the shutdown, which ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Department of Education says a summer program served more than 1 million meals to needy children while public schools were out of session. The agency says that when its final numbers are tallied, it expects the number of meals served to be more than 11 percent higher than it was last year. Meals were offered ...

12 years ago
An SUV takes a wild ride before crashing and injuring two women late Monday afternoon in Dickinson County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 50-year-old Doreen Milligan of Clay Center was driving a Ford Explorer north on Camp Road. The SUV ran off the road into the east ditch, continued down the ditch, and jumped a ...

12 years ago
Hospitals are complaining that it's taking longer to get reimbursed since the state switched to a new managed care plan for Medicaid. When KanCare rolled out in January, most of the state's Medicaid recipients were moved into plans administered by three private companies. Cindy Samuelson of the Kansas Hospital Association says that since the switch, hospitals have ...

12 years ago
A 63-year-old Salina man charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor in the death of a bicycle rider in May has his first court date. According to the Saline County Attorney's Office, Lewis Grider and his attorney Roger Struble Monday morning were advised of the charges and potential penalties. Grider is accused of hitting 49-year-old ...

12 years ago
Deputies are looking for someone who stole the wheels off a skid loader. Saline County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating after someone removed four tires and wheels off a Bobcat skid loader sometime between September 22 and September 28th. The work vehicle was parked on the side of a building in the 4100 block of N. Niles Road, ...

12 years ago
Officers respond to a Salina neighborhood after shots are fired. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, police were dispatched to the 900 block of Sherman at 4:10am Sunday morning after residents heard gunfire. No damage or apparent danger was found after a patrol of the area. Officers were contacted again around 9am after a homeowner in the same ...

12 years ago
An I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force investigation dating back to 2011 - leads to 5 federal indictments for a drug ring with ties to Salina. Task Force Commander Lt. Jim Norton tells KSAL News that agents and the U.S. Postal Inspectors Office joined forces for an arrest in January of 2011. Information gleaned from interviews then pointed police ...

12 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a home burglary. Deputies were called to the 2000 block of East Gray Road on Saturday afternoon, after the owner discovered a number of items were missing from his bedroom. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that the owner returned home in the early hours of Saturday morning and woke ...

12 years ago
The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is speaking about military families at Kansas State University. Retired Gen. Richard Myers will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Little Theatre in the Student Union. The university says the presentation is titled "A National Perspective on the Transitioning and Reintegration of Our Military and ...

12 years ago
A Swedish comedian will come back to life 72 years after his first appearance at the first Hyllningsfest. Multi-talented Steve Benson, educator, broadcaster, and performer, will bring Olle i Skratthult, the headline Swedish comedian at the first Hyllningsfest, back to life in Lindsborg during a number of events over the festival weekend. In his day ...