5 years ago
Flags will fly at half-staff across Kansas to honor a National Guard airman from Salina who was killed in an accident while training. Governor Laura Kelly has directed flags be lowered to half-staff throughout the state effective from sunup Thursday, to sunset, in honor of Staff Sgt. Wesley W. “Wes” Kubie of Salina. “Staff Sergeant Kubie lost ...

5 years ago
The number of vaccinated people in Saline County continues to grow. According to the Saline County Health Department, 20,468 people are now vaccinated, which is  37.7 percent of our local population. There are 3 new COVID cases in Saline County, and no new deaths. There here have now been 6,323 total cases with 16 cases currently active. The total ...

5 years ago
The hottest temperatures so far this summer are expected Thursday and Friday. According to the National Weather Service, hot and muggy conditions are expected for Thursday and Friday. Maximum heat index values on both days will range from 100 to up to 105 in some parts of the state. A heat advisory is in effect for large ...

5 years ago
Twenty-one new law enforcement officers, including an Abilene Police Officer, graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center on Friday. According to the organization, officer Kaelin Leach of the Hays Police Department was the graduating class president. The speaker for the ceremony was Chief of Police for the Abilene Police Department, Anna Hatter. Steve McCorkill, KLETC ...

5 years ago
The Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home is inching closer to fully reopening. According to the organization, beginning Monday the museum will be open six days a week. It will be open Monday through Saturday. The new scheduled s as follows: New Hours (Effective June 21) Monday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Last ...

5 years ago
Thieves removed part of the exhaust system from a van. According to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester, someone stole a catalytic converter from a Ford Econoline van that was parked in the lot at Smoky Hill Education Center at 605 E. Crawford. Police say the emission control device contains precious metals and can be scrapped for ...

5 years ago
Police are investigating the theft of a trailer from a Salina business. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that sometime around 4:25am Tuesday morning, a suspect pulled onto the lot at 1108 Holiday and hooked up a work trailer owned by Ryan's Electric and drove off. Police are reviewing surveillance footage from the lot. The 5' x ...

5 years ago
A drowsy driver was able to avoid serious injury when her RV went airborne in a single-vehicle crash along Interstate 70 in Central Kansas. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 60-year-old Debora Lee from Evergreen, Colorado, was driving a 2005 Ford Motorhome headed east on I-70 in Ellsworth County near Wilson. Lee dozed off while driving. The ...

5 years ago
A quartet of Kansas Wesleyan professors earned both promotion for the upcoming academic year and tenure, according to information released by the school Tuesday. Dr. Trish Petak (Business), Andrea Picklesimer (Nursing), Kathy Sweeney (Nursing) and Karen Babcock Brassea (Theatre Arts) will each be promoted to associate professor effective Aug. 1. “The faculty members who have earned ...

5 years ago
Thanks to a generous donation from a faculty member and some ambitious students, a recently launched center at Fort Hays State University now has a visual symbol to call its own. Paige Simpson, a graphic design student from Salina, won the logo contest for the Center for Empowering Victims of Gender-based Violence (CEVGV) – and the ...

5 years ago
A man near and dear to the hearts of rodeo fans in Abilene and around the nation has been memorialized on a Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo buckle. According to the rodeo, Lecile Harris, a Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame rodeo clown who performed at Abilene’s Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo a dozen times, is the feature on ...