Clay Center News

When Rose Clark's relatives didn't hear from her on Wednesday, they became concerned, and her son, Bill Clark, called Clay Center airport manager Mike Spicer early Thursday to arrange to look for her from the air.

Take a trip back in history at the Republican Valley Pioneer Festival and Threshing Bee Saturday and Sunday, Oct.

Nick Regier, the FFA chapter's adviser said that Ford partners with the national FFA each year, selecting one school in the country to receive a pickup, with the decision based on FFA scholarship applications.

5-6 in Washington, D.C. McDaniel ranked among the top 300 contestants nationwide out of a field of 17,000 entries.

Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced yesterday that she and Athletics Director Lew Perkins have teamed together to raise $40 million for academic programs at the University of Kansas.

Several hundred dollars worth of cigarettes were stolen Aug. 29 in a burglary of the Heritage's store on East Broad Street.

The collapse last week of a deal to buy Union Station poses no threat to planning downtown revitalization, says the mayor.

Clay Center businessman Phil Frigon's $5.5 million deal to buy the former Union Station and Cox Communications Kansas campus in downtown Wichita has fallen through.

When state health officer Jason Eberhart-Phillips briefed the Kansas State Board of Education on the H1N1 virus last week, board member Kathy Martin of Clay Center asked him whether human embryonic stem cells were being used in the vaccinea s development, suggesting that people might refuse vaccinations if that were the case.

A Clay Center convenience store chain and oil transport company has bought the Valero Stop-N-Save store at 1621 S. Main St.

An attempted second degree murder trial has begun in Clay County. 41-year-old Tracy Hackney of Topeka, pleaded not guilty in April to attempted second degree murder and trafficking a controlled substance within a state correction facility.

Front page ~ Neighbors ~ Weddings ~ Janell Parry, Jacob Oberheu exchange vows in Kansas Wednesday, 08 July 2009 00:00 Jacob and Janell Oberheu Janell Parry and Jacob Oberheu were united in marriage on June 20, 2009, in a double ring ceremony at St.

Two people died Tuesday afternoon after their vehicle was struck on U.S. Highway 24 east of Manhattan.

About 425 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery and a subordinate unit from Clay Center, the 250th Forward Support Battalion, will make the trip.

The United Rebel Sprint Series made their second appearance of the 2009 Season at Hutchinson Raceway Park to kick off the Fourth of July weekend triple-header. With fireworks lighting up the sky, in the distance Mother Nature was providing her own show, the action on the track had its share of fireworks as well.

This is day ten of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association and Kansas Wheat.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says Clay Center police officers used justifiable force when they fatally shot a 66-year-old man on June 14.

After meeting with Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn, Clay Center Police Chief Bill Robinson and Clay County Attorney Rick James, the KBI investigator ruled that the shooting of Clay Center resident Ronald Hughes was justified under the circumstances and the officers involved acted professionally.

Police continue to investigate a weekend shooting death. Police say they found 24 year old Alfred Mack Jr.

"We are in no way, shape or form, upset with the officers. They did what they had to do," Ron Hughes' son Ken said Monday afternoon.