TOPEKA — Stacy Crow was a foster parent trying to adopt a child she was caring for. But her effort to give that child a forever family ran into maddening complications — questions raised about why a child kept falling that were sorted out with a doctor’s exam that revealed a crooked spine.
HAYS, Kansas — Trying to cut back on irrigation in western Kansas isn’t a new idea. More than three decades ago, the state came to farmers in the Walnut Creek basin south of Hays with a mandate.
TOWANDA — The Halstead High School boys’ wrestling team took fourth, while Hesston was 10th and Remington was 22nd at the 32nd annual Circle Invitational Friday and Saturday in Towanda. In the girls’ competition, Remington was 17th, Halstead was 20th and Hesston was tied for 22nd.
STERLING — For the second time this season, the Bethel College women’s basketball team was able to hang with 24th-ranked (NAIA) Sterling College, but unable to get the upset, falling 81-70 Saturday in KCAC play at Sterling.
With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching about the Black church’s role in today’s United States.
Groundbreaking planned Full Vision, Inc. will host a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m.
Debbie Traxson has launched a true home based business, one that on especially cold nights can take over much of the family home. For the most part, though, the succulents she grows in artistic containers stay in a greenhouse that sits in the driveway next to her home at 916 SE Second Street.
Fund-raising to fulfill the dreams of Slate Creek Elementary school got off the ground on Feb. 3 with the “All Together” family fun night at the Newton Rec Commission, 415 N.
Brian Skinner, a 2022 Kansas Teacher of the Year, has been traveling the state after winning his award giving a presentation that can be a real eye opener for not only teachers but parents and community members as well.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Kansas — It’s been almost two months since the Keystone pipeline erupted on a December night and crude oil rained down upon several acres of native prairie and cropland, and coated more than three miles of Mill Creek in a toxic sheen.