4 years ago
A toddler is dead following an apparent drowning incident yesterday afternoon in Sedgwick County. Local first responders say the call came in around 3:30 p.m. about the incident on West 21st Street. Responding EMS personnel said the three-year-old boy had drowned in an above-ground pool. Efforts to revive the child reportedly were unsuccessful. An investigation into the incident ...

4 years ago
A former Kearney educator and his wife are dead after their plane crashed Wednesday afternoon in Iowa. According to Musacatine County officials, 68-year-old Daniel Slack and 69-year-old Sharon Slack had been headed back to their home in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, before the crash. A local sheriff said the wreckage of the single-engine Piper Cherokee was found ...

4 years ago
The pond at Salina’s Jerry Ivey Park is among 10 bodies of water in Kansas now under a public health warning. Additionally, another 15 are under a watch. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism has issued public health advisories for four Kansas lakes and ...

4 years ago
Officials in Pawnee County continue to search for a convicted sexual predator who walked out of the Larned State Hospital on June 30th. According to the Pawnee County Sheriff's Office,  42-year-old John Freeman Colt shaved his head to disguise his appearance before walking out of the hospital's Sexual Predator Treatment Program shortly after dawn on June ...

4 years ago
A man from Texas is in the Saline County Jail after leading deputies on a short chase Thursday. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 35-year-old James B. Daigle was booked into jail on multiple charges that include DUI plus flee and elude. Around 1:40am, a deputy on patrol initiated a traffic stop after seeing Daigle ...

4 years ago
Salina Police are looking for someone who stole a pickup and tried to use it to break into an ATM. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that about 4:15am Thursday, an alarm sounded at the Great Plains Bank at 605 S. Ohio. Officers saw visible damage to the ATM and a yellow tow strap and ...

4 years ago
No one was injured in a house fire near Bridgeport Wednesday night. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that about 10:30pm crews from Rural Fire District #3 were sent to 11300 S. Old 81 Highway to the report of an active house fire. Deputies say everyone was able to exit the dwelling as smoke poured ...

4 years ago
On a warm Saturday morning in mid-July, a crowd gathered on the lawn outside of Fort Hays State University’s Kansas Wetlands Education Center to listen to author Mandy Kern read from her newly published children’s book, Ava: A Year of Adventure in the Life of an American Avocet. A former science teacher and current FHSU Program Specialist ...

4 years ago
A dozen people on the latest list of Salina's Most Wanted have been caught. The first weekend of each month a new list of Salina’s most wanted is released. The July list of Salina’s Most Wanted looks a little different. In an effort to clear up numerous outstanding warrants that are currently active, it has been ...

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Kansas Senator Dr. Roger Marshall has joined a group of colleagues in introducing the Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2021. According to Marshall's office, legislation to prohibit the imposition of mask mandates on public transportation. “Unelected bureaucrats don’t make laws, Congress does. After over a year of battling COVID-19, communities and states have reopened, and ...

4 years ago
Flags will fly at half-staff to honor a police officer who died last weekend. Governor Laura Kelly has directed flags be lowered to half-staff throughout the City of Wichita effective from sunup to sunset on Saturday, July 17 in honor of Captain Clay Germany of the Wichita Police Department who passed away from medical complications due to contracting ...