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BAZAAR — What started as a roping activity became a fatal accident in Chase County on Monday night. Sheriff Richard Dorneker says Clifford Cole of rural Cottonwood Falls died after the accident ...

TOPEKA — While Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer has signed an adjustment to a better than half-billion-dollar education funding plan, attorneys for schools say the state’s plan is still woefull...

TOPEKA — Kansas’ request to put a three-year “lifetime” cap on Medicaid benefits has been turned down. Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have said c...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kansas taxpayers could be on the hook for over $50,000 in legal fees stemming from a contempt of court ruling against Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidat...

The Emporia City Commission has a light agenda for its study session this week. Three items will be discussed including a proposed ordinance regarding the tethering of dogs within the city. The ordina...

The Jones Trust Foundation has announced a major gift to help provide books to the Emporia area’s smallest readers. United Way of the Flint Hills Executive Director Jami Reever made the announce...

HARTFORD — Three Burlington residents were hurt during a rollover crash in southeast Lyon County on Monday night. The wreck happened in the 300 block of Road V, about seven miles south of Hartfo...

Construction is progressing well on a new mixed-use development in the former Black & Gold District. Walls are going up on the new Roosevelt Plaza Lofts development. That along with the neighbori...

Preliminary hearings are coming next month for an Emporia couple accused of a local marijuana grow operation. First appearances came Monday for William Ellis, 36, and Octavia Ellis, 35, in Lyon County...

Court dates are set for three Lyon County men accused in separate auto burglaries. Chase Weaver, 19 and Jace Sull, 18, both of Americus were arrested last Wednesday after a reported auto-burglary in O...