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Expect a pair of national alert tests Wednesday afternoon. The federal government is conducting its IPAWS, or Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, test of both the wireless emergency alert and ...

Flint Hills Technical College is enjoying a significant boost in its full-time equivalent student population. The Kansas Board of Regents says the college had a nearly 18-percent increase in its FTE n...

Six people, including four students, were hospitalized with minor injuries after a wreck involving a Hamilton School District bus Tuesday morning. Greenwood County Sheriff Heath Samuels says an 18-pas...

A federal trial has started for a Morris County man charged with downloading child pornography. White City resident Wesley Wagner faces one count of receiving child porn and a separate count of posses...

Emporia chiropractor Eric Hawkins returns to Lyon County District Court for a bond modification hearing Wednesday. Hawkins stands accused of rape and sexual battery involving three separate individual...

Westar Energy, Emporia/Lyon County Fire personnel and Kansas Turnpike Authority officials all responded to the scene of an electrical line down across the turnpike at mile marker 129 Tuesday afternoon...

One of five defendants in an Emporia drug distribution case has a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Jacob Rodriguez faces two counts of drug distribution within 1,000 feet of a school, as well as single ...

A pretrial hearing is slated for Wednesday afternoon in an aggravated battery case sent back to Lyon County District Court earlier this year. Nicholas Faglie appealed his aggravated battery conviction...

Dense fog has apparently found a patch in and around Emporia. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office says thick fog has settled across the area, with visibility at a quarter-mile at best and down to 5...

Later this week, two pesky water main leaks in west Emporia should be fixed. Emporia’s Underground Utilities Department has closed off Prairie between 15th and 18th to fix a leaking water main i...