Baldwin City News

Hot dogs! - The Weenie Dog Races, featuring races, demonstrations and vendors, will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 2, on Poyntz Avenue in Manhattan.

Ottawa High School freshman Andre Lewis competes in the long jump Friday during the 4A regional track meet in Baldwin City.

Dozens of law enforcement officers and emergency personnel will swarm part of the University of Kansas campus on Wednesday for an annual readiness exercise.

I found the recent letters to the editor from Dr. Roy Menninger, of Topeka, Jim Rice, of Liberal, and Dick Walker, of Baldwin City, published April 26 in The Topeka Capital-Journal, to be right on target.

A commemoration event of the 156th anniversary of the Battle of Black Jack will be held at the battlefield near Baldwin City on June 2. According to the historic site's website, the Battle of Black Jack was fought June 2, 1856, when famed abolitionist John Brown led a free-state militia in an attack on the camp of a pro-slavery militia led by Henry ... (more)

The Baldwin City Fire Department received an alarm from the building's smoke alarms and sprinkler system just after 4 a.m. Sunday.

Ottawa High School junior Dallas Natt will lead a trio of Cyclones to the state track meet in the long jump.

Ottawa High School sophomore Brandin Bell throws the javelin Thursday during the Frontier League track meet at Ottawa.

The Legislature sent to the governor a bill containing a cocktail of state liquor reforms Friday that tinkers with happy-hour tavern pricing, definition of a Kansas winery, retail store taste testing and rules about drinking in railroad car bars.

The Kansas Legislature’s inability to agree on new election boundaries will delay the filing deadline for candidates seeking some offices.Secretary of State Kris Kobach announced via Twitter on Thursday that the deadline has been pushed back 10 days, to June 11.

Chris Krause prepares a golf cart for repainting Tuesday at Karr's Karts, 116 E. 15th St., Ottawa.

Former USC tailback and San Diego State reject Dillon Baxter is taking his talents to the middle of nowhere, and small college Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, per Scott Wolf .

A woman from Baldwin City, Kan., was injured Sunday in a two-vehicle accident on Interstate 35 in Lenexa.The driver of a pick-up truck lost control of his vehicle on the wet pavement about 11:55 a.m. and swiped the Subaru passenger car that 33-year-old Erica Bulmer was driving, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.