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The Emporia State softball team picked up 2 more wins Sunday in the Washburn Invitational. They outscored McKendree 9-6. Cassidy Beem was 3 for 3 with a home run and drove in 2 runs. Abbey Ward and Ke...

The Emporia State baseball team was shutout by Missouri Southern 7-0 Sunday. 18th ranked Southern won all 3 games of the weekend series. The 2-5 Hornets return to action Wednesday. They are scheduled ...

Around 1,000 Evergy customers were powerless for a little over an hour Sunday afternoon. The outage developed due to an undisclosed equipment failure on a line north of Strong City around 2:20 pm. Cre...

Fire crews made quick work of a grass fire east of Emporia Sunday afternoon. Hartford-Neosho Rapids firefighters were called to 2249 Road 170, roughly 5 miles east of Emporia, Sunday afternoon after a...

Typically the doors of American Legion Post 5 stand closed on Sundays, however, they were open this Sunday for a very special occasion. The Legion Doors stood open to welcome Operation Desert Storm an...

Local Girl Scout cookie sales are underway in the local community and going strong. Now three weeks into cookie sales, Angela Cheever with Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland says cookies are “flyin...

A special breakfast will be kicking off a fundraising campaign all to support the efforts of local scouts later this week. The annual Friends of Scouting Breakfast is coming up this week. The breakfas...

So far, so good as the prescribed fire season continues at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Over 2,000 acres were burned without incident late last week. Nature Conservancy Flint Hills Initiat...

The 17th ranked Kansas Jayhawks handed number 2 ranked Baylor their first loss of the season Saturday, outscoring the Bears 71-58. David McCormick was 4 for 4 to start the game and finished with a gam...

West Virginia outscored Kansas State 65-43 Saturday. The Mountaineers used a 7-0 run to start the second half to turn a four-point halftime lead into a double-digit lead. Kansas State never led in the...