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This is day eight 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.

"Our View from Here," an exhibition of work from the North Central Kansas Art Association and curated by Jan Schoen, president of the association, will open with an artists' reception 2 to 4 p.m. today at Deines Cultural Center, 820 N. Main, Russell.

Finding a dry eye or a voice capable of producing speech Tuesday inside the Osborne County Courthouse after Kenneth Eugene Wilson was found guilty of the March 2008 murder of Portis resident Jeffery Scott Noel was a tough task.

After deliberating for less than three hours Tuesday, an Osborne County jury found Kenneth Eugene Wilson guilty of the March 2008 murder of Jeffery Scott Noel.

Emotions ran high Wednesday at the trial of Salina resident Kenneth Eugene Wilson as the wife of slain Portis resident Jeffery Scott Noel took the stand and testified about the events of March 25, 2008, the day her home was burglarized and her husband was found murdered inside her home.

Formal proceedings for the trial of Kenneth Eugene Wilson began Monday with jury selection.

Darrel and Ruth Miller set out in 1958 to try to make a living, publish a good newspaper, help their community and shed some light on what was needed in the community.

The organizers of an Osborne County historical tour agree -- stop No. 19 is their favorite on the 20-mile trip through some of the original homesteads in the county.

The festival draws storytellers from across the nation each spring to the small town in Osborne County, located about three hours northwest of Wichita near the Nebraska border.

The federal regulator of national banks said three Kansas banks received satisfactory ratings on their Community Reinvestment Act examinations.

The murder of Portis resident Jeffery Scott Noel in March left a significant impression on the communities within Osborne County.

There are hundreds of years of history lined up in Junior VanderGiesen's "bone yard" in Smith Center, Kan.--from scrap tractors used for parts to plows that will only fit on their two-cylinder counterparts, ...