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If this was the Breakfast Quiz and the question was "who first coined the name - The Flint Hills?" Would you have an answer? I do because my friend Wikipedia always has lots of interesting facts. Expl...

They were called names like “Turbo,” “Chubby” and “Wormy.” And over 70 slimed their way across a pair of tables at the Emporia Public Library for the annual worm ra...

The United Methodist Churchhas about 12 million members across the world. In the United State, United Methodist ranks as the largest mainline denomination, the second largest Protestant church, and th...

The Dirty Kanza 200 - wow! What an event! Congratulations to the organizers and all who participated and helped out. It was great day to be in Emporia! In case you didn't hear: 727 riders pre-register...

Monday was a federal holiday we now call Memorial Day. It is observed to honor the men and women who died while serving in the country's armed forces. The holiday is celebrated every year on the last ...

They say imitation is the finest form of flattery, so here goes. Sunday in the Wichita Eagle Edward Flentje, a WichitaState professor and former interim president of Emporia State (he did yeoman work ...

Emporia State Baseball Coach Bob Fornelli is my topic today because he represents a positive attitude most of us would love to possess. Bob came to Emporia Statehoping to play for Dave Bingham, but Bi...

Our choices to represent us in the First Congressional District of Kansas will be: Incumbent Tim Huelscamp, and Challengers: Kent Roth and Alan LaPolice. Believe it or not this is an improvement as Re...

The new director of Emporia State University’s Honors College is ready to build the department — and, as he said on KVOE’s 8:05 am newscast Wednesday, he’s ready to dream big. ...

Another close loss for the Emporia High girls soccer team, they were defeated by Topeka West 2-1 Monday. The Match was scoreless until halfway thru the second half when Topeka West scored the first go...