Author Archives: Chuck Samples
Halloween comes early to downtown Emporia with Dia de los Muertos, trick-or treat event
You could probably feel the sugar high in downtown Emporia on Saturday. Commercial Street was packed for Emporia Main Street's annual trick-or-treating event featuring over 20 participating businesses...
Oct 30, 2021 Emporia's Halloween weekend began with the Dia de los Muertos parade Saturday. Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Gary Fuller Memorial Shootout supports 4-H projects
The Fuller Shop northeast of Emporia was busy for the fourth annual Gary Fuller Memorial Shootout on Saturday. The event honors Fuller's legacy and his longstanding support of 4-H activities. Fuller's...
Oct 30, 2021 Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
CORONAVIRUS: Schmidt asks federal court to invalidate federal vaccination mandate for contractors
Legal wranglings were expected when President Joe Biden announced a federal mandate for vaccinating certain employees against COVID-19. Kansas has joined six other states in suing the Biden administra...
Oct 30, 2021 Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. Official photo.
Lyon County at 1,100 advance votes cast with process ending at noon Monday
The advance voting process comes to an end at noon Monday. County courthouses will open at 8 am Monday for one final morning before the general election Tuesday. So far, 1,100 people have taken advant...
Oct 30, 2021 Kansas Secretary of State graphic.
Investigations ongoing into recent house fires
Investigations continue into a pair of house fires from the end of the work week in Lyon County. Deputies continue their investigation into Thursday morning's fire that destroyed a house at 200 West M...
Oct 30, 2021 Fire early Thursday destroyed everything inside an uninhabited house at 200 West Maple in Hartford. Doug Stump/Lyon County Sheriff's Office.
CORONAVIRUS: FDA authorizes Pfizer shot for children between 5-11
COVID-19 vaccinations for children as young as age five are a step closer to reality. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer shot for children between the ages of five and 11 on Friday...
Oct 30, 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo.
CORONAVIRUS: Osage County passes 2,000 total case mark
As Lyon County is now approaching 5,600 total cases since the pandemic started in late March 2020, another area county has passed a caseload milestone of its own. Osage County recently passed 2,000 to...
Oct 30, 2021 Kansas Department of Health and Environment map.
CORONAVIRUS: Newman Regional Health to offer booster doses of all approved vaccines starting Tuesday
Newman Regional Health announced it will start offering booster and third doses of all COVID-19 vaccine options starting Tuesday. Previously, the hospital was offering boost and third doses only of th...
Oct 30, 2021 KVOE News file photo.
Fifth teenager in Avila murder could be certified as adult after Monday hearing
One of five suspects in the murder of Jesus Avila could be certified as an adult after court proceedings Monday. Alan Alanis has a motions hearing at 9 am. If approved by Judge Merlin Wheeler, Alanis ...
Oct 30, 2021 Alan Alanis. Lyon County Jail photo.
Emporian convicted of battery, arson, found not guilty of child sexual exploitation
An Emporia man was convicted on some -- but not all -- of the charges against him in a case involving accusations of sexual exploitation, arson and aggravated battery. A jury in Lyon County District C...
Oct 30, 2021 Alex Alexander. Lyon County Jail photo.
