3 years ago
Saline County Sheriff Rodger Soldan tells KSAL ksal news of an arrest made on Wednesday night following a chase. On October 12, at 10:08 p.m. a Sheriff's Deputy initiated a traffic stop in the 400 block of N. Broadway at the Log Cabin Motel. After the driver had made a wide turn. Once the vehicle stopped ...

3 years ago
A 74-year-old Salina man was rear ended in at Crawford and Santa Fe. At approximately 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Douglas Rudick was at the corner of Crawford and Santa Fe going west when he stopped at the intersection. A driver behind him in a white SUV struck his 2007 Buick Lucerne and drove away.  Salina Police ...

3 years ago
An 18-year-old Salina man failed to yield to oncoming traffic, struck a vehicle, then a home in the 2300 block of Edward St. Salina Police Captain Paul Forester tells KSAL news that at 2:45 pm on Wednesday, there was an accident at the corner of Edward and Magnolia. Wayne Jackson, 18, was going north on Edward ...

3 years ago
Salina Regional Health Center is opening a Breast Milk Depot to collect human milk that will help nurture premature or critically ill babies. SRHC is the first hospital in the state of Kansas to partner with Oklahoma Mothers’ Milk Bank who collects and distributes breast milk in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. According to the hospital, mothers who have filled out the paper work and have been approved ...

3 years ago
Kansas highways are getting millions of dollars in improvements. Governor Laura Kelly was in Fort Scott yesterday where she announced that 34 cities across the state will receive more than 28-million-dollars for improvements to the State Highway System. The funding is being awarded through the City Connecting Link Improvement Program, which is administered by the Kansas Department ...

3 years ago
A fund has been established to help a Salina family stay by the side of a loved one who is fighting for his life following a motorcycle crash. 19-year-old CJ Prough is hooked up to a ventilator in a Wichita hospital room after being involved in a motorcycle crash late Monday night. The young man from ...

3 years ago
Blue Beacon will put local first responders to the test next week during an active violence training exercise. The joint effort between Blue Beacon, Saline County Emergency Management, the Saline County Sheriff's Office, the Salina Police Department, Salina Police Department Emergency Communications Center, Salina Fire Department Emergency Medical Services, and Salina Regional Health Center will take ...

3 years ago
A Salina man was taken into custody after a joint investigation involving the Saline County Sheriff's Office and Dickinson County authorities. Saline County Investigator Kody Trower tells KSAL News that 42-year-old Michael Kohman was arrested Tuesday after a month long investigation that culminated with a search of his home and subsequent arrest. Deputies say multiple stolen antiques ...

3 years ago
A Salina truck owner contacted authorities after realizing his vehicle was stolen. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers are reviewing video from the 200 block of North 12th Street after an unknown person entered the man's unlocked 2015 Nissan Frontier and drove away. The blue pickup had a few City of Salina tools on ...

3 years ago
Another handgun is stolen from an unlocked car. A day after Salina's Interim Police Chief Sean Morton reminded citizens to, "Lock your cars, your homes and secure your firearms," police report it's happened again. Investigators say sometime between 12:30am and 8:30am Tuesday, someone entered an unlocked Ford Fiesta in the 700 block of Faith Drive and stole ...

3 years ago
A New Mexico man died in a construction site accident involving heavy equipment north of Russell. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, at 2:02 PM Tuesday, a Caterpillar 940B loader driven by 28-year-old Tyler Darren Jennings of Valley Falls, Kansas was driving north up a hill at a construction site just east of US Highway 281 north of the Saline ...