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CORONAVIRUS: Master Teacher award ceremony now taking place in 2022
Yet another event has fallen victim to coronavirus. This year’s Kansas Master Teacher awards ceremony at Emporia State University has been pushed to April 2022 at the earliest. Teachers College ...
Oct 20, 2020
Kansas City Chiefs run past Buffalo 26-17
(ap) The Kansas City Chiefs ran past Buffalo 26-17 Monday night. Led by Clyde Edwards-Helaire's 161 yards rushing, the Chiefs finished with 245 rushing yards, the most since Patrick Mahomes took over ...
Oct 20, 2020
Emporia High boys soccer at St. Marys Academy
The Emporia High boys soccer team is down to their final 2 matches of the regular season. Tuesday they play at St. Marys Academy. Junior Alexys Ramirez says they will be fine tuning somethings before ...
Oct 20, 2020
Salvation Army ready for curbside commodity pickup event
The Emporia Salvation Army will have a curbside commodities pickup event Wednesday. Food will be distributed outside the Salvation Army Annex, 209 West Fourth, from 1:30-3:30 pm. All people need to st...
Oct 20, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: Area counties all add new cases; Osage County logs second death
Area counties announced increases in their coronavirus caseload Monday. *Chase County added seven cases to go to 36 total. The seven new cases are the only active cases for the county. There is one co...
Oct 20, 2020
KU running back Pooka Williams Jr opts out of rest of season
University of Kansas Running back Pooka Williams Jr has announced that he is opting out of the rest of the season. In a tweet he said the decision was made so he could be closer to his mother who is b...
Oct 19, 2020
Emporia High golfers ready for day two of 5A Girls State Golf Tournament
After the first round of play at the 5A State golf tournament in Salina Emporia Highs Avary Eckert is tied for 29th place with a 88 and Olivia Eckert is tied for 31st place with a 89. Libby Green of M...
Oct 19, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: 13 new cases, two deaths for Lyon County over weekend
Lyon County is now just under 1,200 coronavirus cases after weekend activity. Lyon County Public Health is reporting 13 new cases, moving the overall total to 1,195 cases since March. There were five ...
Oct 19, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: Osage County exempting close contacts from quarantine in certain situations
The Osage County Health Department is adding an exemption to the county’s coronavirus quarantine process. People determined as close contacts of confirmed patients may be exempted from quarantin...
Oct 19, 2020
Emporia State and Emporia excited to host NCAA DII Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Emporia State University held a news conference Monday morning to talk about hosting the 2024 and 2026 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Emporia State president Allison Garrett s...
Oct 19, 2020
