Category Archives: News
Grass fire northeast of Emporia handled quickly
A small grass fire developed northeast of Emporia on Thursday. Emporia Fire responded to the fire near Road 230 and Burlingame Road around 2:40 pm. The fire was caused by an unspecified vehicle malfun...
Nov 19, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: Emporia Public Library holding off on reopening plans as cases continue to spike
The Emporia Public Library is postponing plans for granting additional access to its building due to the ongoing rise in COVID-19 cases over the past month. The library announced the decision via a ne...
Nov 19, 2020
Lyon County Public Health contract future still uncertain; discussions to continue over coming week
Lyon County Commissioners held their first public conversations regarding its public health contract for 2021. As KVOE News has reported in recent weeks the county chose not to renew its contract with...
Nov 19, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: Newman Regional Health now consistently at or near staff-based capacity; test positivity rate shoots up to 41 percent
Last week, Newman Regional Health started occasionally hitting staff-based capacity as the coronavirus surge began appearing at the hospital. CEO Bob Wright says that limit is getting hit a lot more c...
Nov 19, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: Local health system 'at breaking point,' according to Lyon County Public Health
Lyon County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Director Jennifer Millbern says the now-ongoing surge in coronavirus cases is showing no signs of slowing down, and that is putting a major strain on t...
Nov 19, 2020
McKenna: Decision to cancel Christmas parade painful but proper
The decision to cancel the Emporia Christmas Parade was a natural reflection of the current coronavirus landscape. That didn’t make Wednesday’s decision any easier to process for Chamber P...
Nov 19, 2020
Salvation Army kicking off Christmas fundraising period Friday
The Salvation Army of Emporia formally kicks off its Christmas fundraising season Friday. Major Deb Thompson says there will be a virtual kickoff on the agency’s Facebook page at 9 am. Your brow...
Nov 19, 2020
Pretrial hearing coming Friday for trio of kidnapping, conspiracy suspects
Three people accused of breaking into an Emporia house and threatening two people inside have hearings Friday. Samantha Goza, Lane Rogers and Dakota Wilson all have pretrial hearings at 2 pm in Lyon C...
Nov 19, 2020
One-time Wabaunsee County indicted on wire fraud counts
The legal woes keep coming for one-time Wabaunsee County coroner Shawn Parcells. The US Attorney’s Office has now indicted Parcells on 10 counts of wire fraud, alleging he ran his autopsy-for-hi...
Nov 19, 2020
Suspect in attempted motel robbery case reaches plea agreement
A man accused of trying to rob an Emporia motel early this year has accepted a plea agreement in the case. Jeremy Spicer accepted a plea for attempted robbery and is now set for sentencing Jan. 8. Cha...
Nov 19, 2020
