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State education officials have told school districts to expect about a $150 reduction in the current base state aid per pupil.

The holding area for the missle silo that was located at the site of Jackson Heights High School.

Shawnee Heights Elementary School principal Layne Hunley has been named one of the Kansas nominees for the National Distinguished Principals program.

When I first saw Lucy, she was cowering in a corner of her kennel at the Heart of Jackson Humane Society in Holton, Kan.

Interest in Amelia Earhart hits all-time high Oct. 23: As a movie about Amelia Earhart hits the big screen, interest in her real life has spiked.

Many were broken, many were saved here. Beloit's name became synonymous with its girls' reformatory, one of the longest-operating in the country, which for more than a century mirrored the most enlightened reforms but also the cruelest horrors of such places.

Wednesday was "Design Day" in Holton, Kan., as they planned for a new playground to be built in Linscott Park next spring.

The Kansas Department of Commerce will award $75,000 in Incentives Without Walls funding for eight community improvement projects in Chanute, Holton, Hutchinson, Manhattan, Phillipsburg and Seneca, officials announced Tuesday.

Kara Morgan's passion in life was dancing. "From the time she was little, she'd take her little blanket with her and she'd just dance around and put it over her head like it was a princess dress and dance and dance," Connie Morgan, her mother, said.

University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little issued the following statement today regarding the death of student Kara Louise Morgan, a junior from Lawrence.

A jury has found a former Holton man guilty on charges of raping a child. The Holton Recorder reports that Paul S. Davis faces two counts of rape and aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

Sharon Laverntz asks Rep. Lynn Jenkins a question during the listening tour stop at the Oskaloosa Public Library.

Donations are being accepted for an event to help families in Jackson County. The Jackson County Kids Closet is taking donations of gently-used clothing and shoes, sized preemie to large junior.

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A recent deployment of the National Guard 48th Brigade and other soldiers to Afghanistan has left a lot of local military families behind to carry on.

The Kansas Department of Transportation announced approved bids for state highway and construction maintenance projects across the state Wednesday.

Joey + Rory, the husband-wife duet of Rory Feek, left, and Joey Martin, will headline the Holton / Jackson County Chamber of Commerce July Jubilee, which runs from 4 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at Banner Creek Reservoir west of Holton.

SALINA, Kansas - Soldiers and families of the Kansas National Guard a s 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery will be honored with a steak feed cookout on Friday, July 3, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The cookout is being sponsored by the All American Beef Battalion and will be held at the Salina Armory, 2910 Arnold Ave, Salina.

Many people found their homes in Kansas as a part of the Orphan Train program run by the Children's Aid Society and the New York Foundling Hospital from 1854 to 1929.