The Goessel Task Force will host a Christmas Mart fund-raiser from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 5 at Wheat Hall, 300 N. Poplar St.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Food Ministry of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will conduct a distribution of U.S. Department of Agriculture commodities from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the church, at 102 E. First St.

New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

The second-annual Newton High School Men’s Alumni Basketball game will be at 5 p.m. Saturday in Ravenscroft Gym.

The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

The Kansas Department of Commerce awarded $4.13 million in Community Service Tax Credits to 20 nonprofit organizations around the state, including Schowalter Villa in Hesston.

A woman who had been charged with child endangerment after almost 370 animals were seized from her Missouri farm has been placed on two years of unsupervised probation.

The Harvey County Commission met in a special session Thursday afternoon to open and award a bid for bonds worth $918,500.

Newton police issued a press release giving a description of the suspect who approached several young children in the Newton area Nov. 10.

Members of the Newton Community Chorale rehearsed Monday night at Bethel College Mennonite Church in North Newton. The chorale will perform its annual concert at 7 p.m. today at the church. The 50-voice chorale will provide an evening of classical sacred music, and a free-will offering will be taken.