12 years ago
Salina USD 305 teachers, including 90 educators new to the district, returned to the classroom Thursday. The district kicked of the 2013 - 2014 school year with its annual all-school assembly, the only time during the year when the entire district gathers in one location. Teachers from every school in the district gathered at Salina ...

12 years ago
A man allegedly tries to coerce a child to get into a vehicle. According to Salina Police, in the 1200 block of Republic Circle yesterday a young girl was stopped while crossing the street by a man in a white pick-up truck. The man, reportedly in his 30's, offered the 9-year-old girl a ride in his truck ...

12 years ago
Much of soggy south central Kansas remains under a flood warning as more rain is forecast to fall into already full waterways. The National Weather Service says 5 to 6 inches of rain fell early Thursday in Clark and Ford counties. Several county roads are impassable, particularly near Kingsdown and Blooms. In Sedgwick, Harper, Sumner, ...

12 years ago
Lottery officials say three winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night's $448 million dollar Powerball drawing. Two of the tickets were sold in New Jersey, while another was purchased in Minnesota. The winning numbers are: 5-25-30-58-59 and the Powerball is 32. Though it's not the grand prize, there is still several big ...

12 years ago
Tri Rivers Fair royalty is crowned. 18-year-old Allisa Houchin from the Gypsum Valley 4-H Club is the 2013 fair queen, and 17-year-old Andrew Puechen from the Sunny Valley 4-H Club is the 2013 fair king. Houchin, a recent graduate of Southeast of Saline High School, tells KSAL News that this is her 7th year of involvement in ...

12 years ago
Authorities in northeast Kansas say a small alligator spotted in a lake was shot and wounded in the snout before it could be rescued. Fishermen spotted the 3-foot-long alligator on Saturday in Atchison County Lake. Sheriff's deputies monitored the animal until the Atchison County Humane Society helped catch it Monday using a dog kennel and other ...

12 years ago
A special committee of Kansas lawmakers will meet Aug. 26 to consider proposals for rewriting a state law allowing judges to sentence convicted murderers to at least 50 years in prison. House Republican Lance Kinzer, the panel's chairman, said Wednesday the 14-member committee will draft recommendations on repairing the "Hard 50" law at the meeting. A U.S. ...

12 years ago
A day after the county expressed little interest in seeing a written proposal for a joint city-county health department, Salina City Commissioners met in a special meeting Wednesday afternoon and agreed to draft one. City commissioners voted to draft specific language of a plan for an interlocal agreement with the county to jointly operate the health ...

12 years ago
A former Solomon teacher pleads to sex charges. According to Dickinson County court officials, 28-year-old Amber Stroda on Wednesday pleaded to three felony counts of unlawful sexual relations. Stroda was arrested back in February of this year. She was accused of having sex with two different male Solomon High School students. The students at the time were ...

12 years ago
[caption id="attachment_2198" align="alignnone" width="300"] Brooks Garretson, 14, puts some finishing last touches on his handcrafted dinosaur sculpture. The sculpture has a chicken wire skeleton with a paper mache and gauze outer body. Nearly 100 hours went in to its creation.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2199" align="alignnone" width="300"] Stony Pony, a 13-year-old miniature horse stands by a towering combine outside ...

12 years ago
A Bonner Springs woman has filed the paperwork to run for the 2014 Kansas gubernatorial race, running as a Libertarian in a third-party challenge to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. Tresa McAlhaney announced Wednesday that she filed the necessary documents to form a committee with the state to begin her campaign. She is joined on the ticket ...