Norton News

According to a Kansas Highway Patrol report, Damien C. Davis, 15, of Norton, was driving west on Kansas Highway 383 when he drove off the north shoulder and then back onto the highway, skidding into the south shoulder and striking the south ditch at 6:05 p.m. just over a mile east of Kansas Highway 60.

Incoming University of Kansas students and their parents from Ellis, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Russell, Smith and Trego counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16, in Hays.

A southwest Nebraska man has been sentenced to nearly six years in a Kansas prison for indecent acts with two young girls.

A McCook man will serve 5 1/2 years in a Kansas correctional facility after being sentenced on two counts of felony aggravated indecent solicitation of a child.

Indications grew Monday evening that the Topeka City Council would reject a proposal today to merge city and county parks and recreation departments under county control.

Jerry and Gloria DeWitt, Prairie View, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Kassandra DeWitt, to William Artz, son of Ken and Linda Artz, Phillipsburg.

Mayor Bill Bunten said Wednesday that if Topeka's governing body votes to re-authorize the city's purchase of a business software system, he will veto that move despite City Attorney Jackie Williams' assertion that the mayor lacks that authority.

As members of the congregation of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Norton gathered recently for the groundbreaking of the site where their new facility is to be constructed, it seemed as if God himself was giving a thumbs-up to the project.

High Plains Harvesters, a chapter of Christian Motorcyclist Association, will hold its annual weekend campout at Prairie Dog State Park on Highway 36 west of Norton, Kansas.

Five members of the public and the head of the Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority asked the Topeka City Council on Tuesday evening to raise the bus agencya s property tax mill levy, saying cutbacks TMTA plans for May 24 will have devastating effects on those who depend on its services.

The city of Topeka and the Kansas Association of Public Employees have agreed to return to the bargaining table after a state board recently heard testimony regarding KAPEa s contention that the city last year bargained in bad faith.

Representatives of all five cities and 12 townships in Shawnee County were on hand Monday to accept checks from the county commission for fuel tax revenue they initially were shorted before state lawmakers restored the funding in February.

Increased ridership on the citya s bus service shows Topekans are a oetransit hungry,a its chief executive officer told the Topeka City Council on Tuesday evening.

Students from 10 Kansas high schools will be honored Thursday, April 9, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment.

Erinn Elizabeth Mendon and Shine RichardDale Fischer, both of Pittsburg, announce that they are engaged to be married.

Consolidation, storm sirens and the hiring of a special prosecutor are among topics the governing bodies of Topeka and Shawnee County will take up this week.

A survey taken last March showing morale was low among city of Topeka employees spurred the city to take steps that included holding an "Employee Appreciation Week" this past September.

Topeka public schools superintendent Kevin Singer said education budget cuts ordered Thursday by the Legislature, and another round on the horizon, will force unconventional thinking about spending habits.

Dennis Taylor is working to fix problems, not assess blame. Taylor, the city of Topeka's performance coordinator, is in the process of developing a strategic plan for the city, as well as a system to track ...

Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten is backing off his suggestion that pay raises for the mayor and city council be part of a ballot question he hopes to put to a public vote.