Labette News

LA CYGNE a ' Public budget hearings were on the agenda last week, but the La Cygne City Council apparently failed to follow the correct procedure to close the hearings during its regular meeting Wednesday.

An Amber Alert was canceled Wednesday night after a missing boy and his grandmother were found in Chetopa, Kansas.

Labette Health is hosting dedication ceremonies for it's new Rector Diabetes Education and Resource Center.

Justice Concepts Inc., a consultant that missed its deadline to reduce the Sedgwick County Jail's population by 25 percent, will receive additional money for work it says it did outside its contract.

Labette Community College President Dr. George Knox is under fire for asking to be reimbursed for a political campaign donation.

One junior biology major is so discouraged with the Pittsburg State Chemistry Department that she is paying $500 extra per course and driving 30 to 40 minutes to take classes from Labette Community College in Parsons.

Roger and Joyce Rosson announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Dawn Rosson, all of Edna, Kan., to Dr.

A transient accused of committing the city's first homicide of the year has been extradited from Kansas and remains in Harrison County Jail.

Former Ark City resident Rob Emery has been named the 2008-09 NASPAA Junior College Public Address Announcer of the Year.

Months after the first cases of the H1N1 virus are detected, the influenza strain makes it's way to the Four-States. Labette Health Emergency Department Director Dr.

The Arkansas City Police Department will be using a federal grant to step up enforcement of seatbelt laws in the Arkansas City area as part of a statewide enhanced enforcement effort.

HUTCHINSON a ' State budget problems are forcing prison officials to drop programs designed to help inmates' rehabilitation.

Mark Parkinson has requested federal disaster assistance for 28 Kansas counties because of severe storm damage.

Two new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Labette County, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Kansas to 100.

A tornado watch has been issued for most of south-central Kansas -- including the Wichita metropolitan area -- until 10 p.m. today.

A new study of Kansans' health puts Gove County first and Wyandotte last among the state's 105 counties.

A southeast Kansas boy is sporting a shaved head. It's not by his choice, but his school's. Six-year old Derby McReynolds had his hair cut in a "faux-hawk." His parents say Labette County school officials told them it was inappropriate and sent him home, so they changed it to what they called a military cut.