4 years ago
A federal grand jury Friday returned an indictment charging 15 people with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine in Kansas. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the defendants allegedly intentionally conspired to distribute cocaine in the state of Kansas and elsewhere between January 2019 ...

4 years ago
A missing 77-year-old man who was the subject of a statewide Silver Alert has been discovered deceased at the Leavenworth State Fishing Lake. The statewide Silver Alert is now canceled. - - - ORIGINAL: A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for an elderly Kansas man who went fishing on Tuesday and has not been seen since. According ...

4 years ago
A pilot from Texas was able to walk away after he was forced to make a rough landing at a small airport in Central Kansas. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 69-year-old Perry Proffitt from Keller, Texas, was flying a 1964 Beechcraft single-engine fixed wing aircraft. The agency says as he was landing at Hillsboro Municipal ...

4 years ago
Two pillars of the Salina business community have announced an exciting new partnership, as Mahaska and Kansas Wesleyan have joined forces. Mahaska will be the official beverage provider for KWU, and will sponsor both the KWU Exemplary Teacher Award and scholarship opportunities designed to support Marketing and Business students from north-central Kansas. “It has been an ...

4 years ago
There have been 37 new COVID cases in Saline County since Wednesday and no new deaths. According to the Saline County Health Department there are currently 708 active cases of the virus in the community. Salina Regional Health Center reports they have 13 patients in the hospital battling the virus. Overall, 146 people have died in Saline County ...

4 years ago
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a couple of suspects caught on camera in a vandalism case. The crime is this week's Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. Police say on September 16th officers investigated a damage to property which occurred at 2:21 AM in the 600 block of S 3rd Street. The ...

4 years ago
It was the end of an era this summer at Kansas State University Salina with the retirement of Greg Stephens, the last remaining faculty member who was part of the campus when it was the Kansas College of Technology. The college merged with K-State in 1991, and many of its faculty at that time were ...

4 years ago
A Texas man is facing several charges after leading officers on a pursuit late Thursday night. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers responded to reports of a disorderly subject at a bar at 2030 S. Ohio Street around midnight. As officers were in route, the subject, later identified as 33-year-old Rick Cisneros, left ...

4 years ago
After reports of a stolen truck and trailer from a Salina construction business, another trailer turned up missing the next day. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were sent back out to the business on September 22nd,  the day after the original theft. Another trailer, a 2006 two-axle black one, was allegedly stolen as ...

4 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office has identified the male found dead in rural Saline County on September 21st. The male has been identified as 42-year-old Marc Anthony Tipton Sr. of Salina. Next of kin has been notified. This is an active multi-agency investigation by the Salina Police Department, Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Saline County Sheriff's ...

4 years ago
Kansans who receive food assistance will benefit from a permanent increase in the maximum benefit amount beginning Oct. 1. According to the Kansas Department for Children and Families, the change is taking place due to the 2018 Farm Bill that directed USDA to re-evaluate the Thrifty Food Plan which is used to calculate benefits for food ...