12 years ago
Community members gathered Friday morning to celebrate a large, unique children's project. A ribbon was cut in celebration of the official opening of America's largest fully accessible playground at Coronado Elementary School. Over 500 volunteers converged on the school on a Saturday morning back in July to do their part in helping build the one-of-a-kind ...

12 years ago
A Saline County School Resource Officer's vehicle is vandalized overnight. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, a deputies car that was parked in the 300 block of E. Ellsworth had several windows smashed in the early morning hours of Friday. Deputies say the 2005 Ford Crown Victoria had the back window, and both driver side windows ...

12 years ago
A 1,000-piece collection of Jayhawk memorabilia will stay at the University of Kansas Union. James and Mary Asher of Overland Park, Kan., have donated $130,000 to the KU Endowment so the union can buy the collection. Bud Jennings began collecting the memorabilia in 1939. He donated it to the union four years ago, ...

12 years ago
A 74-year-old man is recovering from an accident at the Kansas State Fair that put him in the hospital. Valley Falls resident Earl Stevens suffered broken facial bones and other injuries in the accident two weeks ago. Stevens and his family camp at the fair every year for a long weekend. Stevens was on a sidewalk that crosses ...

12 years ago
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lawton Nuss says the next fiscal year's budget for the judicial branch could force courts across the state to be closed for seven weeks. Nuss said Thursday that the budget approved by lawmakers this year for Fiscal Year 2015 is more than $8 million short of what the judiciary needs to avoid ...

12 years ago
The Kansas Board of Regents has asked the governor to restore tens of millions of dollars in higher education spending that was cut this spring. Regents Chairman Fred Logan says that although the budget has been approved for the next fiscal year, the board had a responsibility to advocate for increased investment in the state system. The ...

12 years ago
Kansas education commissioner Diane DeBacker says she will be sending a "friendly" letter to the state Republican Party this week correcting what she and other education leaders are calling misinformation about Common Core Standards for reading and math. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the letter is a response to a resolution the Kansas GOP state committee adopted ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback says recent changes in how Kansas Court of Appeals judges are chosen have led to a more democratic process and that he would support similar changes for the state Supreme Court. Brownback spoke Thursday to members of the conservative-leaning Federalist Society in Overland Park. A new Kansas law lets the governor appoint members of ...

12 years ago
Officials from American AgCredit proudly unveiled their new Salina facility on Thursday. Construction of the 12,464 square foot building began back in November. By August 23rd it was complete, and employees moved in. The new facility features a walkout basement, ten enclosed offices, four open office areas, and a mail and production room. It also has a ...

12 years ago
Chief Hill calls it a career. Salina Chief of Police Jim Hill spent his last day at police headquarters yesterday, he officially retires October 1st. City Manager Jason Gage tells KSAL News that the search for a new chief continues, while Deputy Chief Carson Mansfield is overseeing the police department on an interim basis, "Carson will be ...

12 years ago
An inventory check reveals a missing item at a Salina business. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, staff at Foley Equipment, 529 N. Broadway, contacted police after an inventory showed a Bluebird sod cutter had been stolen. Police say someone removed the cutter sometime between Tuesday afternoon at 3pm and Wednesday morning at 8:30am. Total loss is listed at ...