Author Archives: Chuck Samples

A calm weather pattern gets more unsettled this week before shifting back to calm conditions. The forecast calls for a slight chance of showers and storms Monday afternoon, followed by a better chance...

A suspicious vehicle call in eastern Osage County led to an arrest on suspicion of illegal drug activity. Osage County Sheriff Chris Wells says the suspicious vehicle call Friday afternoon led to cont...

Emporia State University is welcoming its second finalist for the Dean of the School of Business and Technology to campus this week. Emporia State alum Mohammad Merhi, currently a professor and associ...

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has pardoned a man convicted in Lyon County over 25 years ago. Chung Pham was 21 when he was convicted in 1993 for aggravated battery, serving 32 months in prison followed ...

Sinkhole repairs continue in downtown Emporia. City Engineer Jim Ubert says a better-than-50-inch storm sewer line has been installed. Pavement should be placed by early next week, with another week o...

Even with some likely reflection of the Hopkins Manufacturing shutdown, the Kansas Department of Labor's March unemployment report shows Emporia and Lyon County jobless rates declining. Emporia's jobl...

Asphalt work is underway on part of Americus Road The Lyon County Highway Department is working on Road F from Road 320 north to US Highway 56. It is a process that could take several weeks to finish....

An expansion of sorts is on order for the National Memorial to Fallen Educators. Following a successful 12 for 12 fundraising campaign earlier this spring, the National Teachers Hall of Fame has order...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks says a hunter was hit by a train and killed this past weekend. Wildlife and Parks says the incident was reported around 7:30 am April 25 south of the juncti...

Greenwood County is the only area county currently with any listing of drought from the US Drought Monitor, but the Kansas Water Office has all area counties in a drought watch. Kansas Governor Laura ...