Newton could be getting more rail traffic. The interest is there, coming from the south, but nothing is official yet. Once a feasibility study is complete, more information will be available.

The numbers don’t add up — one driver (sort of), one car and two accidents. It almost sounds like the build up to a bad joke, but it landed one woman in the hospital Friday afternoon.

The North Newton City Council will have a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the North Newton City Hall.

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Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton’s once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.

The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, the Bush administration said Friday.

mid a deepening world hunger crisis and low global grain stocks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast on Friday the nation’s farmers are poised to harvest a bountiful wheat crop this season with continued strong commodity prices.

The Roman Catholic archbishop for northeast Kansas said Friday Gov. Kathleen Sebelius should refrain from taking Communion until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion rights.

A state regulatory board repealed a rule Friday that threatened to deny licenses to most of the prospective Kansas dentists in this year’s graduating class at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Kansas is making improvements in its enforcement rate in preventing sales of tobacco to minors.