Medicine Lodge News

Published online 11/10/2009 10:12 PM Veterans Bob Angle, right, and Sam Hartley put into place new tiles on the Veterans Memorial in Medicine Lodge.

High and low temperatures and precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 7 p.m. Saturday.

A proposed ultra high-voltage power line in southern Kansas is back on the drawing board after a regional planning body decided Tuesday to keep it a priority.

Dick Schremmer has worked in the oil business for nearly 40 years. And he's only 55.

Contemporary country singer Martina McBride rose to stardom in the late '90s, starting out with a more traditionalist approach and later moving into pop-friendlier territory.

Dani Lambrecht and Kyle Ricke were married May 23, 2009, at St. Nicholas of Myra Catholic Church, Hays, with Father Daryl Olmstead officiating.

A tornado, filled with swirling dirt, grinds across a farm road in western Kansas on May 8, 2008.

Published online 9/15/2009 11:09 PM Dr. Ruben Garcia sees patient Jeannine Rinke, 80, in an exam room at Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Running towards a raging twister might seem insane to most people but for one artist, such perils are all in a day's work.

The southern Kansas town of Medicine Lodge is close to completing a $1.2 million water main.

As a veteran of the Iraq war, a 6-year-old German shepherd has a new job: sniffing our narcotics in Kansas.

Published online 8/27/2009 10:58 PM Dakota a oeCodya Lonker leans against a concrete chunk that lightning broke from the edge of a deck at the home of his great-aunt and great-uncle, Barbara and Don Lonker.

Contemporary country singer Martina McBride rose to stardom in the late '90s, starting out with a more traditionalist approach and later moving into pop-friendlier territory.

Contemporary country singer Martina McBride rose to stardom in the late '90s, starting out with a more traditionalist approach and later moving into pop-friendlier territory.

Friday, July 31, 2009 A 14-year-old boy has been released from the hospital after being struck by lighting during Monday's storms.

Dakota Lonker feels tingling and has some minor heart damage, and many of his muscles are sore.

Barber County voters passed a bond issue to build two new hospitals. The new hospitals would replace the 25-bed facility in Medicine Lodge and another facility in Kiowa, neither of which are compliant to government guidelines according to hospital leaders.

Don Lonker was home with his grandkids and great grand nephew in Medicine Lodge this week when the lightning hit.

A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition at a Wichita hospital after he was hit by lightning in Medicine Lodge Monday afternoon, officials said.

THE RED HILLS in South Central Kansas may be the most color-rich region of the state.