KSCB News

Kan. Unemployment Rate 6.9% In July - August 20, 2010

Unemployment in Kansas increased to 6.9% in July, up from 6.5% in June but still better than the 7.9% last July. The Department of Labor said Friday that Kansas had an increase in the number of new j...

Liberal Police Take No Tolerance Approach to School Zones - August 19, 2010

School resumed in Liberal yesterday at the high school and middle schools. School begins today for first through sixth grades. School zones will be enforced again and Liberal Police Lieutenant John ...

Ex-Stanton County Principal Gets Probation For Burning Wife’s Car - August 19, 2010

A former school principal was sentenced to probation for burning his estranged wife's car during a confrontation at her home. Thirty-seven-year-old Craig Butler was sentenced Wednesday in Johnson Cou...

Absentee Voters Can Still Vote In Texas County - August 19, 2010

Registered voters in Texas County who want to vote by mail absentee ballot in next Tuesday's Run-Off Primary Election have missed the application deadline, County Election Board Secretary Kimberly Slo...

Ft. Supply Escapee Recaptured - August 19, 2010

An escapee from the William S. Key Correctional Center in Fort Supply has been recaptured after about five hours on the run. Prison officials say 25-year-old Damon Lane was discovered missing abo...

Loaded Cattle Truck Overturns - August 18, 2010

According to a reort in the Guymon Daily Herald,Hwy. 136 was closed for more than seven hours after a loaded cattle truck overturned and struck power-lines Monday morning. According to Oklahoma Highw...

Youth Encouraged to Sign Up for Scouting - August 18, 2010

Girl Scout representatives will be in the Plains & Kismet area on Tuesday, August 24th and in Liberal on Thursday, August 26th, to share the benefits of scouting and make registration convenient for ...

Liberal’s Petty Earns KU Football Scholarship - August 18, 2010

Liberal's Reece Petty has made some pretty big receptions in his football career. He had 17 of them his senior year in 2005 at Liberal High School. Petty caught touchdowns in 2003, 2004, and 2005 fo...

Hooker High has Hope in 2010 - August 18, 2010

Hooker has lost 31 consecutive football games and have gone 0-10 the past three seasons. They are 1-59 the past six years. While the cross country team wins or competes for state titles most years a...

Liberal Man Burned In Panhandle Explosion - August 18, 2010

A Liberal man remains in critical condition at the Lubbock Burn Center after 50 percent of his body was burned last week in a flash tank explosion, the Texas County Sheriff's Office said. The accident...