1 year ago
A truck driver from Ellsworth was injured in a two-vehicle crash involving two semis Monday morning west of Salina. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the injury crash happened when a semi pulling a tanker rear-ended a semi pulling a box trailer. The driver of the tanker truck, 46-year-old Ronnie Lee Hamby Jr. of Ellsworth, was transported ...

1 year ago
A farm machinery fire destroys a hay baler, 5 bales of hay and about 40-acres of grass. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 50-year-old Staton Diehl was operating a tractor and baler on Friday evening in a field near the Saline County / Lincoln County line. Deputies say around 6:05pm, a bearing on the ...

1 year ago
Even New Yorkers like rodeo. At least that’s the case for the 2024 Miss Rodeo Kansas State Queen Jordan Daugherty. The K-State student, an Army brat, spent her high school years living in New York City, and now she’s been crowned the rodeo queen for K-State. The daughter of Aaron and Eryn Freese, she and her family ...

1 year ago
After over an inch of much needed rain fell in Salina to begin the day Sunday, dangerous extreme heat is taking over. According to the National Weather Service, dangerously hot conditions are possible through at least Thursday for all of Central Kansas, stretching from Russell to Topeka. Heat index values around 115 are possible each day. Through ...

1 year ago
The KKOA Leadsled Spectacular cannot get any smaller. Gene Tweedy of Arizona and his "dwarf" sized 1954 Chevy in Oakdale Park are living proof. Tweedy works alongside the originator of the dwarf car, Ernie "Mr. Dwarf Car" Adams in Maricopa, AZ. "Our dwarf cars are street legal" says Tweedy. He has driven his '54 Chevy for ...

1 year ago
A $10 million federal grant to the KU Cancer Center is like an injection of hope for patients and researchers. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran wrapped a tour of the University of Kansas Health System campus by celebrating a federal appropriation of $10 million for the KU Cancer Center and $10 million earmark for acquisition of sophisticated ...

1 year ago
Not every hot rod has a motor humming under the hood. Just ask Perry Grico from North Platte, Nebraska who brought a truckload of vintage bicycles to his first KKOA Ledsled Spectaular in Salina. "I brought down some old Schwinn bicycles going back to the 1930's and 40's," he said. "They're beautiful bikes with beautiful lines - ...

1 year ago
Custom cars were showing off their style and speed to a packed crowd on a beautiful Friday night. From 4:00pm-dusk in the midst of KKOA weekend, crowds were astonished with how fast these cars went on the runway, near Markley Road. The races were a 1/8 of a mile long against whoever was bold enough to put ...

1 year ago
An event which will celebrate manufacturing employees in Salina who help build, power and feed the world will roll into town later this week.  Great Plains Manufacturing will host the “Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Manufacturing Express” in Salina this coming Friday, August 2nd. The tour is the largest public engagement initiative in the 130-year history ...

1 year ago
A grant will fund a series of speakers who will discuss notable people throughout history who were instrumental in shaping the Lindsborg area into what it is today. Humanities Kansas recently awarded $2,000 to the Smoky Valley Historical Association in Lindsborg to support “Historical Speakers Series,” a set of online talks that explore key figures ...

1 year ago
Every picture tells a story and every car at the Leadsled Spectacular has an owner(s) with a love story to tell. Chris and Debbie Ballinger of Wichita own three Fastback 'babies' they love to share at car shows. This weekend they brought their 1969 Shelby GT 500. The couple met in 1980 and discovered collecting Fastbacks was ...