Just a few weeks into the forensics season, Bethel College has qualified its first competitor for the American Forensic Association-National Individual Events Tournament.

Bethel College announces recipients of academic scholarships for the 2009-10 school year who are first-time freshmen at the college. Academic scholarships at Bethel are based on high school grade point average and college entrance exams.

Learn about ghosts, witches, bigfoot, Area 51, paranormal TV, Team Eeek hints and paranormal radio.

On a brick plaza in this walled colonial port where slave ships once dumped human cargo, a young black man cries out a Spanish verse over the beating of his tambor drum.

Army Reserve Pvt. Casey J. Wedel graduated from basic combat training at Fort Knox.

For the 18th year in a row, the Bethel College Library successfully applied for funds from the State of Kansas Interlibrary Loan Development Program to expand and improve its holdings.

Last week you read in this column about meeting yourself halfway by downsizing your eating. The same principle applies with spending to help you build wealth and decrease debt.

Jane Stanley, 70, of Newton, likes to embroider and crochet.

During the past seven years, she’s created countless baby quilts, lap blankets, dolls and tablecloths, all with great care and amazing attention to detail. But that’s not the most incredible part of the story.

Extra copies of the 2008 Kansan holiday cookbook are for sale at the Kansan, 121 W. Sixth St., for 50 cents each.