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Dodge City CC Appoints Woodburn As President - March 25, 2011
Trustees of Dodge City Community College have chosen Don Woodburn as the school's new president. Woodburn had been serving as interim president of the southwestern Kansas college since January. The p...
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Man Facing DUI Charge Brings Beer To Court - March 25, 2011
Authorities say a New York man appearing before a judge on a felony drunken driving charge arrived at court an hour and a half late, drunk and carrying an open can of Busch beer. Sullivan County Und...
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Official Report On Tuesdays Grass Fire In Texas County - March 25, 2011
Goodwell Fire Department received a page for a grass fire on Mile 22 and Road O around 11 o’clock in the morning. Goodwell realized this fire was going to be bigger than their resourc...
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Fires Flare Up Again In The Panhandle - March 25, 2011
Another grass fire kept fire fighters busy in the panhandle of Oklahoma Thursday evening. The call came in at around 6:30pm of a grass fire just west of Optima in Texas County. Fire units from Guymon,...
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Driver Falls Asleep Causing Injury Accident on 83 - March 25, 2011
A man was taken to the hospital yesterday after he fell asleep at the US 56- US 83 intersection near Sublette. Fifty-five year old Bernon Fischer of Canyon, Texas was taken to Satanta Hospital with ...
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Satanta Voters To Vote On Sales Tax Increase - March 24, 2011
At the General Election on April the 5th, residents of Satanta will be asked to vote on a referendum authorizing the Satanta City Council to increase the city-wide sales tax by 0.50% to be used toward...
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Boy Wins Stinky Sneaker Contest - March 24, 2011
There's something rotten in Sterling Brinkerhoff's closet: his sneakers. The 9-year-old boy from Benjamin, Utah has the worst sneaks in the land, according to the judges of the 36th National Odor-...
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House Votes To Ban Smoking In State Owned Casinos - March 24, 2011
A bill extending the 2010 statewide smoking ban to state-owned casinos has cleared the Kansas House. The 97-26 vote on Wednesday sends the measure to the Senate. Legislators approved the ban last ye...
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Voter ID Bill Moves Through The Senate - March 24, 2011
-Kansas Senate approved a bill to require voters to show photo identification at the polls by a 36-3 vote. The measure also would require people registering to vote for the first time in Kansas t...
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Fire Fighters on Alert Again Today - March 24, 2011
(Above are pictures from the Texas County fire.) Rural fire departments in much of dry, windy Kansas are being taxed by grass fires that scorch anywhere from a few acres to dozens of square miles. S...