Augusta News

Published today at 2:18 a.m. Last updated today at 2:26 a.m. * Andale will be one of the top teams in 4A and will be led by defending champion at 145, Jake Hattabaugh, and second-place finishers Benny Armstrong and B.J. Finney .

Jan Colvina s design career is, in a way, coming full circle. Colvin started in the business by dressing windows for a shop in Augusta when she was 14.

Former Butler County state legislator Peggy Palmer has thrown her endorsement to Mike Pompeo in the 4th Congressional District race.

When Lilli Lackey started college, talk of a growing teacher shortage gave her confidence that a job would be waiting for her when she got out.

FEMA has approved $17.8 million for tornado safe rooms in Kansas. Thirteen communities will get the total of 30 rooms, which are built to withstand 290 mile-per-hour winds.

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 4:01 p.m. Voter turnout has been below 10 percent today at some precincts in Richmond County's District 5, where an Augusta Commission and school board race are on the ballot.

" The La Cygne City Council last Wednesday approved a measure that will save about $252,000 annually on payments for the city's natural gas utility.

It was an accident. On that point, almost everybody agrees. Augusta High School freshman Andrea Young, 14, was shot and killed Friday night while attending an underage drinking party in the 900 block of Wirth Street in the small Butler County town, authorities said.

The town of Augusta is preparing to bury one of its own killed in what police are now calling an underage drinking party Friday night.

Megun Jarvi stands in the living room of the house where 14-year-old Andrea Young died Friday night.

Counselors will be available at Augusta High School this morning to help students mourning the death of freshman Andrea M. Young.

A 14-year-old girl was shot to death Friday night at an underage drinking party in Augusta, and the man hosting the event was arrested in her death, police said today.

A shooting in August late Friday night kills a 14-year-old girl. Our news partners at KFDI say police were called to a home in the 900 block of Wirth Street around 10:30. Location of Shooting Police say the girl was dead when officers arrived.

Three Republican legislators in Kansas want the attorney general to review a state agency's decision that gave extra Medicaid funds to a service provider tied to the state Democratic Party's chairman.

A perennial favorite on the garden railway tour is the spread in the backyard of Gary and Norma Agard in Augusta.

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Five Kansas schools were among 314 nationwide to be awarded Blue Ribbon honors by the Department of Education.

Filming reportedly will begin soon in a Worcester, Mass., airport on a movie starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.

Cowskin Creek floodwaters surround a home on Karren Lane in west Wichita Wednesday morning.

Rod and Becky Watson are opening their second Anytime Fitness in the greater Wichita area, this time in Park City.