Bennington News

Three teams from the Regional qualify for state along with the top ten individual runners.

When Salina musician Teresa Weaver picked up her first guitar at age 16, she learned to play by listening to songwriters like Bob Dylan.

A crash in rural Ottawa County sends two people from Bennington to the hospital in Salina.

A crash in rural Ottawa County sends two people from Bennington to the hospital in Salina.

Two Bennington women were injured Friday during a rollover south of Kansas Highway 18 in Ottawa County during a severe thunderstorm in the area.

A Bennington woman is hurt in a one-vehicle crash in rural Ottawa County that happened as severe weather was rolling through.

The Saline County Sheriffa s Office is investigating 3 business burglaries where business account checks had been stolen.

PLEASE NOTE: We are working on a slideshow of photos from this year's Pioneer Days.

West McArthur bottle feeds a 4 week old buffalo Monday afternoon. He started bottle feeding the buffalo when it's rejected him in favor of his twin.

Farms near Bennington and Topeka among those with a purple purpose. By Amy Bickel - The Hutchinson News - abickel@hutchnews.com Bundles of lavender lie on a table in Mike Neustroma s basement.

One of the most recent confirmed cases in Kansas of the Swine Flu is in an elementary school student in the Ottawa county town of Bennington.

Aside from some extra cleaning, operations haven't changed at Bennington schools since an elementary school-age student became ill with the H1N1 influenza virus.

The student has not been in school since last Wednesday, he said. "I think the boy's doing fine.

Three suspects are accused of accosting Mike Cunningham, a Sonic manager, in the parking lot after he had secured the restaurant at 2615 Market Place at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday.

Some 200 more were quickly printed and given out, so Romm estimated 500 people had gathered to protest the tax-and-spend - or is it borrow-and-spend, or borrow-and-stimulate, or borrow-and-bail - policies of the federal government.