Pittsburg News

PITTSBURG, Kan. - After three years of planning and discussion, Pittsburg will see work by a real estate developer who is planning to create downtown housing for 75 to 100 people in the vacant Hotel Besse.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - The expression "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" often is used when explaining a theory of psychology.

The old Jefferson Highway was the first transcontinental road to traverse the North American continent from north to south, and possibly the first dedicated international highway in the world.

The photo originally was published in the Nov. 10 edition of The Fort Scott Tribune with a request to identify the man.

Students and the community are invited to take part in the Tastes and Sounds of Nations Friday evening on the Pittsburg State University campus.

Sam Johnson, a junior finance and economics major at Pittsburg State University, holds up a bag of quarters to show a group of third graders from Lakeside Elementary School in Pittsburg during a tour of Citizens Bank in Pittsburg on Tuesday.

University of Kansas students in the Dean's Scholars Program will be honored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the University Honors Program at a reception at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

A Pittsburg woman and her daughter whose organs were donated after they died in a car accident will be honored on a float at the Rose Bowl Parade on New Year's Day.

Seven years ago, when the Pittsburg School District received its first "standard of excellence" designation in connection with state assessments, there was a huge celebration.

Amy Ecker and Michael Russell, Fort Scott, and big brother Andrew, are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Coby William Russell.

Six graduate students at the University of Kansas have received Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships to study African languages during the 2009-10 academic year.

A highly anticipated video game is now available in stores, but not without a shadow of controversy.

The Indian Festival of Lights, devoted to color, candy and family unity, returns to Pittsburg at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

TV, the Salvation Army, and area Westco Home Furnishing stores are organizing one of the area's largest toy drives to benefit underprivileged children, including teens, in Southeast Kansas, Southwest Missouri, and Northeast Oklahoma.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - Mount Carmel Regional Medical Center's registered cardiovascular invasive specialist, Wes McDaniel, is himself a heart attack victim - twice.

On October 29, 2009, the Kansas Bureau of Investigationa s Southeast Kansas Drug Enforcement Task Force served a search warrant upon the residence of 111 East Jackson in rural Mulberry, Kansas.

Midwest Minerals Inc., winner of the Kansas State Conservation Commission 2008 Governor's Mined Land Reclamation Award in July 2009, has been recognized to receive the top national award from the National Association of State Land Reclamationists.

Pittsburg Appliance owner Jon Clark says he was distracted on Sept. 4 when he set his phone down on a handrail in a travel center restroom in Anderson.

A fire early Wednesday that destroyed a vacant house in Miami was being termed suspicious.

The last time I really celebrated Halloween was in October of 1997. I kind of can't believe that was 12 years ago, but then again these days it seems like I'm being hit in the face almost daily with reminders of how much older I'm getting.