Arkansas City News

David and Dianna Crawford, Oklahoma City, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Mary Waymire, to Aaron Basgall, son of Mike and Sue Basgall, La Crosse.

An administrator at an Oregon community college will be the new president of Cowley College in Arkansas City.

The City Commission voted Tuesday to change municipal code to allow the use of fireworks within city limits and to set a permit fee for fireworks sales.

The City Commission voted Tuesday to change municipal code to allow the use of fireworks within city limits and to set a permit fee for fireworks sales.

The man who drowned in a pond near Park City while trying to flee from police late Saturday night is from Arkansas City, authorities said Monday.

Legislators are expected to make quick work of remaining education issues when the Kansas Legislature returns Wednesday to finish the 2013 session, including a proposal sought by Gov.

Union State Bank representatives celebrated their new Wichita office Tuesday. From left, are Bill Docking, chairman and CEO; his brother, Tom Docking, a partner at the Law Offices of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chartered, in Wichita and bank board member; Eric Kurtz, president, who will become CEO on Jan.

Will he get more profit selling his hay to dairymen or to beef producers? That's what Roger Black asks himself this time each spring as he plans his yearly business strategy.

This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating the state's history. The series' name comes from the state motto, "Ad astra per aspera: To the stars through difficulties." It was men like David Payne, nicknamed the Father of Oklahoma because he was one of the first to urge European settlers into what was then Indian Territory.