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Kansas regulators on Wednesday lifted an embargo on wheat from 20 fields and three grain elevators in seven south-central Kansas counties after test results showed no detectible traces of a toxic fungicide ...

Kansas state Reps. Ed Trimmer, D-Winfield, and David Crum, R-Augusta, co-sponsored legislation during the current session to honor "atomic veterans" by naming a portion of Highway 400 for them.

“It has to be a pretty significant speed before they get stopped or issued a ticket. Nobody has had a ticket for three or five over in Leon, at least not since 1996”

Flashing lights in your rearview mirror and that sinking feeling, you're getting a speeding ticket. via KWCH

A woman reportedly in her 50's was killed Saturday evening after a tragic ATV accident. via KAKE

Sheriff Craig Murphy said Levi Michael Measles of Grenola was killed about 4:45 a.m. Saturday when his Chevrolet Blazer overturned as it rounded a curve two miles south of Leon. via Kansas.com

“We're still talking to the company. This is obviously not something that happens overnight. We're talking millions and millions of dollars. We've been talking about six months now, and we're still in the discussion phase.”

David Alfaro, executive director of Butler County's economic development agency, has an uneasy relationship with the Goliath to his west. via Kansas.com

“It's not a problem unique to Elk County at all”

Two Elk county residents who are facing animal cruelty charges had nearly 60 animals removed from their property last week. via WIBW-TV Topeka

“It hasn't happened like this in a while, so it seems so much worse.”

Wichita has already surpassed its seasonal average for snowfall, and we just spotted the first full week of February in the rear-view mirror. via The Wichita Eagle

Vehicles slid off of icy roads in several counties in south-central Kansas today as drizzle froze on roadways, dispatchers across the region said.

A National Weather Service forecaster said it will only get worse as temperatures slowly drop and freezing rain moves into the region.

'We're going to stay this way for a couple days,' said Leon Wasinger, a National Weather Service forecaster in Wichita.

Wasinger said he expects up to a quarter-inch of ice to accumulate by Sunday, and that ice will likely stay around through Monday. Read more

A Fort Campbell soldier from Kansas died last Friday in Nashville, but a military official says the cause of his death is unknown. via The Daily News Journal

Driver cited after fiery Friday night crash Published: Monday, October 8, 2007 2:47 PM CDT E-mail this story | Print this page MICHAEL McDERMOTT Gazette News Editor A high-speed chase ended Friday night with a ... via Augusta Daily Gazette

A longtime administrator in the Bluestem school district based in Leon has died of injuries suffered in a Butler County traffic accident.

David Kohls, assistant principal and assistant football coach at Bluestem High School, died Thursday at Wesley Medical Center, the Kansas Highway Patrol said Friday.

Accident investigators said Kohls was southbound on U.S. 77 south of El Dorado when the vehicle he was driving left the road and overturned at 11:23 p.m. Wednesday.

Bluestem superintendent Dennis Engels said word of Kohls' death reached the district Thursday afternoon. Read more

Travel Headlines The Leon-Bluestem School District is mourning the loss of their athletic director. via WIBW-TV Topeka

Project Beauty released the newest version of its Wichita sculpture guide last week. via Kansas.com

Rusty Rierson, a country-western singer from Leon, advanced to the regional level of the Colgate Country Showdown last week at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. via Augusta Daily Gazette

Medicine Lodge Indians fans left the game content Friday as they saw their football team rout the host Bluestem Lions , 44-0 in a league test. via MaxPreps

In Friday's league game, the Belle Plaine Dragons football team smashed the host Bluestem Lions , by a final score of 40-8. The Dragons will now prepare for their game against Anthony-Harper-Chaparral . The ... via MaxPreps