Galena News

Former Cherokee County Attorney Michael Goodrich is scheduled to be released today from the Federal Bureau of Prisons after serving his sentence.

COLUMBUS, Kan. - A plan to increase the Cherokee County hotel and motel guest tax wouldn't affect existing taxes in Baxter Springs and Columbus, County Counselor Kevin Cure said Monday.

GALENA, Kan. - The Galena City Council on Monday night approved seeking bids for a sidewalk along Schermerhorn Road leading to Seventh Street.

Another deadline has passed without an applicant for a state-owned casino in Cherokee or Crawford counties.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has announced his intentions to remain in office for another year, and that is good news for our country.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 9:37 p.m. GALENA, Kan. - A southeast Kansas prosecutor has dropped a charge of driving under the influence against former Pittsburg State football coach Chuck Broyles.

GALENA, Kan. - The Galena and Baxter Springs school boards have approved an agreement turning the operation of the Cornerstone Alternative High School over to the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center in Greenbush for the next school year.

GALENA, Kan. - City Attorney Kevin Cure on Monday said he could decide as early as today to drop a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol against former Pittsburg State University head football coach Chuck Broyles.

Joplin Globe PRN hours needed at Skilled Nursing Facility in Galena, KS. Very light need, just 2 hours every other week.

The doctors of Orthopaedic Specialists of the Four States were dressed in tuxedos Thursday as they debuted their $8 million building near the Missouri state line.

Around 1990 the city put up 47 angels along the main streets in Galena, Kansas. Since then the angels have become a mainstay of the city's holiday decorations.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - Law enforcement personnel have determined that in the past year, 300 more high-school students in Southeast Kansas began wearing their seat belts as the result a student-led campaign that was piloted last year in Crawford County.

From staff reports news@joplinglobe.com Pupils in several area Kansas school districts achieved the Standard of Excellence on the Kansas Statewide Assessments administered last year, according to the Kansas State Department of Education.

GALENA, Kan. - Pittsburg State University head football coach Chuck Broyles is to meet with his boss next week in the wake of having been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.

Joplin Globe Services for John Cleaver, a former area soldier who was killed last week in Afghanistan, will be conducted at 3:30 pm Sunday in the Galena 0 comments Want to leave a comment? You must log in or register to leave comments.

By Joe Hadsall jhadsall@joplinglobe.com LaTausha Reed was prepared for the release early this morning of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." For about a month before the movie's release, she had been wearing her "Twilight" T-shirts. For the screening of the movie at 12:01 a.m. today, she planned to dress as Alice Cullen, one of the sparkling vampires in ...

COLUMBUS, Kan. - Though still in an early stage, a Cherokee County program has so far kept 58 pounds of prescription drugs out of water systems.

A Jasper County jury found that the owner of a Joplin salvage business was not financially responsible for the death of a man who was crushed by a storage box.

Three Galena residents are facing drug charges in Cherokee County District Court.

A Jasper County jury began hearing testimony Tuesday in the trial of a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by family members of a man who was killed when a large storage box toppled onto him two years ago in Galena, Kan.