Published 7/2/2009 in Local News
By STEPHANIE FARLEY
HODGEMAN COUNTY — The joke among Finney County commissioners goes that they'll build a statue of Commissioner Don Doll in the bottom of HorseThief Reservoir.
As the 450-acre recreational lake fills, the water will eventually rise over the statue of Doll, covering his mouth, so commissioners won't have to listen anymore to Doll's reser ...
Published 7/2/2009 in News
TOPEKA (AP) — A federal official has told Kansas to start over its review process for a proposed coal-fired electric plant in southwest Kansas that Gov. Mark Parkinson had endorsed.
Sunflower Electric Power Corp., based in Hays, plans to build the electric plant in Finney County. Sunflower had ...
Published 7/2/2009 in Local News : Police
By SHAJIA AHMAD
The Garden City Police Department is conducting an internal investigation of a traffic-related arrest after the woman they arrested accused officers of verbal and physical abuse and neglect.
A Wichita woman and former Garden City resident wh ...
Published 7/2/2009 in Local News
By The Telegram
In the latest www.gctelegram.com poll, a slight majority of votes were in favor of keeping in place a smoking ordinance for Class A clubs, such as the American Legion and VFW.
About 54 percent of votes, or 205 of 376, were for keeping the ban in place.
Of the remaining votes ...
Published 7/2/2009 in Local News
By STEPHANIE FARLEY
MARIENTHAL — What was once a farm, and then a foster care home for children in western Kansas, has been transformed into a center for women dealing with substance abuse.
Mary and Jerome Berning, who were looking for a way someone could ...