Gas Prices For Thanksgiving Travel
If you’re traveling for the Thanksgiving Holiday, gas prices are not unreasonable as you head out. According to Triple A, the average price for gas in Hutchinson is just at 3-dollars a gallon for...
View ArticleHutchinson High Student Council Donates Gift Bags To Pediatric Patients
A special project undertaken by ten members of the Hutchinson High School Student Council has brightened the lives of 50 pediatric patients at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. Alisha Jester,...
View ArticleFour Hutchinson Community College Students Busted For Pot
Four students at Hutchinson Community College are free on signature bonds after they were arrested at the college for possession of marijuana. According to police, an employee of U-S Security reported...
View ArticleKan. AG issues opinion on guns at polling places
(AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is offering guidance on how the state’s concealed carry law applies to buildings used as polling places on election days. In an opinion issued Wednesday,...
View ArticleCar-Deer Accident Sends One To Hutchinson Regional
A Motor vehicle deer accident Wednesday afternoon set one person to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center for treatment. It occurred at 95th and Netherland when a 2013 Buick Lacrosse driven by...
View ArticleFeds amend charges against Kansas wastewater manager
(AP) — Federal prosecutors have trimmed their case against a former northwest Kansas wastewater manager accused of violating the Clean Water Act. A criminal information filed Wednesday in U.S....
View ArticleBrownback proclaims ‘Small Business Saturday’
(AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is proclaiming Saturday as “Small Business Saturday,” urging consumers to shop at small, community retailers as the holiday shopping season begins in earnest. The...
View ArticleHere Is Your 7-Day Forecast For Hutchinson And Reno County
Sunny and seasonably warm weather is anticipated region-wide through Tuesday, with daytime temperatures in the 50s. Much colder weather and light wintry precipitation will be possible by mid to...
View ArticleColorado man killed after Kansas police chase and crash
(AP) — A Colorado man has died in western Kansas when the car he was driving hit an embankment after a brief police chase. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 34-year-old Gerad F. Madrid of Colorado Springs...
View ArticleHutch Man Arrested For Aggravated Assault
A 55-year-old Hutchinson man who is well known to law enforcement is jailed on a 75-thousand dollar bond after he allegedly threatened his neighbors and caused criminal damage. Terry Young apparently...
View ArticleKansas agency releases report into party bus death
Jamie N. Frecks (AP) — The Kansas Highway Patrol says a party bus driver insists she properly latched a door from which a Kansas woman fell to her death. Troopers found the side door wouldn’t have...
View ArticleCommunity college chief: remedial classes crucial
Neosho County Community College president Brian Inbody (AP) — A community college president tells Kansas education officials that remedial courses are critical for the progress of thousands of Kansans....
View ArticleAG evaluating evidence in slayings of mom & 3 children
David Cornell Bennett, Jr (AP) — An upcoming court appearance is scheduled for a 22-year-old man suspected of killing a southeast Kansas woman and her three children. The office of Kansas Attorney...
View ArticleDonation of 24-Quilts To Aid Child Advocacy Center At Horizon’s Mental Health...
A group of area quilters associated with Demelia’s Quilt Shop in Yoder recently donated 24- quilts to the Child Advocacy Center at Horizons Mental Health Center, a member of the Hutchinson Regional...
View ArticleWildlife Checkpoint Coming To South Central Kansas In December
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism (KDWPT) and local law enforcement officials will conduct a joint checkpoint here in south central Kansas in early December. The regular firearm...
View ArticleHere Is Your 7-Day Forecast For Hutchinson And South Central Kansas
Relatively warm daytime temperatures will impact the region through early next week. However, much colder, Arctic air will plunge south across the Plains by mid-week. It will feel very much like...
View ArticleWestern Kansas man dies in Saturday rollover crash
A Saturday morning rollover crash took the life of a Dodge City man. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol twenty year old Taylor Sam Flaherty of Dodge City was driving a 1995 Chevy truck east bound...
View ArticleKansas Man seeks to withdraw plea in school shooting
(AP) — One of four defendants in a deadly shooting death near a Topeka high school is seeking to withdraw his plea. 24-year-old Coty Newman, of Topeka, pleaded guilty in March in Shawnee County...
View ArticleKansas women make gift for Sandy Hook victims
(AP) — Two Kansas women have memorialized each victim of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting in a custom-made Christmas tree skirt. Patti Smith of Great Bend had grandchildren around the age some of...
View ArticleFrog-killing fungus found in Kansas
(AP) — An amphibian-killing fungus has turned up in streams and ponds in Kansas, raising concerns among biologists. The discovery was made by students working with biologist Mary Liz Jameson in her...
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