HOVER OVER IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT Happy Thanksgiving! In this weeks issue we provide what Marion's second graders are thankful for. While many have taken advantage of moderate weather to start Christmas ...

She enrolled at Newman University, a private college in Wichita, to study criminal justice and business administration. She later dropped business administration to focus on criminal justice.

Gifts made in Kansas by Kansans are featured on the Kansas Sampler website at kansassampler.org. More than 150 businesses are represented. The annual online shopping list of Kansas products is put ...

Thouvenell drove off with passenger Blair L. Thompson, 17, later telling police that he fled because he was afraid of getting in trouble. No injuries were reported, and no dollar estimate of the ...

A Prairie Past Times Christmas open house with artist demonstrations and giveaways is planned at 220½ Broadway in Cottonwood Falls. There will also be an old-school silent auction, Christmas tree and ...

Vacated alley, weight limits. Because of outdated records, since updated, on the county’s online property database, ownership of Todd Winters’ property on Tanglewood St. prope ...

Holly Jolly Christmas will return for its sixth year this weekend. The event, always the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, will have activities from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., several of them new. Tammy ...

Self-guided tours from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6 and 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 7 will feature five beautifully decorated historic homes and a charming church in Abilene. In addition to classic architecture, one of ...

Four Marion High School music students have been selected to participate in the South Central District Honor Band and Choirs of the Kansas Music Educators Association. Olivia Smith, was named to the ...

People seem no longer to have ideas or, at least, aren’t willing to share them. We cry “me, too” rather than “me, first.” We try to fit in rather than stand out. Worst of all, we’re horribly ...

“MHS already has a cell phone policy that does not allow students to have their cell phones in their possession during class time,” principal Donald Raymer said. “Our policy is ‘from bell to bell, no ...