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Camp Wood has a new leader. The YMCA camp near Elmdale has chosen B.J. Murray, its current operations director, as its next chief executive officer. Murray has 18 years of YMCA camp experience, includ...

After taking Halloween off last week, the Emporia City Commission returns to action Wednesday afternoon. A major item on the agenda will be the discussion of approving the ordinance for utility rate i...

I prepared this talk on Election Day. While I have no idea how this rather nasty event ends, I do know unless our elected leaders start finding the gumption to act on behalf of their constituents rath...

Bev Long of the Kansas Children’s Service League previews the annual Red Stocking Breakfast and discusses the Healthy Families program. Your browser does not support the audio element. Frank Low...

Emporia State University students and local residents were treated to a presentation on how big business influenced the course of history. New York Times best-selling author Edwin Black was the featur...

Polling places are open across Kansas, and Lyon County Clerk Tammy Vopat says the official Election Day turnout has been busy Tuesday morning. Vopat says several polling places had lines of voters wai...

Two Burlington residents have been arrested in connection with what authorities say was a widespread theft, burglary and robbery case that has been investigated for most of the year. Ashley Owen, 19, ...

An Emporia man charged with rape is now about a month away from his scheduled trial date. Edgar Hilberto Gonzalez, 46, was set for a final pretrial hearing date of Dec. 5 during a hearing last week. T...

The man accused of running from local law enforcement after hiding in a garage near Sacred Heart School earlier this summer has another pretrial hearing coming next month as potential trial settings g...

Trial settings are now on the docket for three suspects in a local drug distribution case after hearings for two of the suspects Friday. Luis Guillen is now set for a prime trial setting of Feb. 25 on...