Author Archives: Chuck Samples

A preliminary hearing is coming in December for a Georgia man charged in Lyon County with conspiracy and other charges. Demetrius Odom will return to court Dec. 10 after the Kansas Attorney General's ...

Women who want to enroll in the Emporia State Cybersecurity Research and Outreach Center's Women in Technology Conference this week have to do so by the close of business Tuesday. Click here for the r...

Area residents got rainfall as part of a line of showers and thunderstorms Monday. They just didn't get much of it. The KVOE studios reported nothing measurable after the activity ended Monday night. ...

There is still some work left, but downtown Emporia's major street resurfacing project is into the home stretch. Repaving, the main component of the city's annual CCLIP project, got done late last wee...

The jury trial for Emporian Travis Westcott is entering its second week. Westcott is facing over 20 counts in Lyon County District Court, ranging from attempted murder to aggravated kidnapping, aggrav...

Details are pending in one of two aggravated child endangerment cases developing in Greenwood County. Deputies say they arrested Kelton Buettner on suspicion of aggravated endangerment, driving under ...

Abundant Harvest has adjusted its food giveaway and meal pick-up times. Food giveaways will be at 8:30 am weekdays and 5:30 pm Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Spokesman Josh Graves, a gues...

Steady as she goes for the state's unemployment rate, according to Kansas Department of Labor economist Emilie Doerksen. Emporia's jobless rate went from 3.8 percent in August to 3.2 percent in Septem...

An Osage County business is getting a federal grant for renewable energy. The US Department of Agriculture says Controlled Environmental Warehousing LLC of Osage City will get almost $132,000 to buy a...

Come January, Marc Goodman will end a lengthy career in law -- and as Lyon County's chief prosecutor. Barring a massive write-in effort, Goodman's longtime lead assistant, Amy Aranda, will be elected ...