Pittsburg News

The last meeting of his first day on campus as president of Pittsburg State University was what Steve Scott called "the best part" of his job.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - On Wednesday, leadership at four educational institutions in Crawford County will change, bringing a new face and name to the head position at each.

After the city eliminated $17,000 it usually donated for the show, citizens began a campaign to raise the nearly $30,000 needed to put on the show.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - The U.S. Department of Transportation announced last week that it will disburse almost $1 million in grant funding to the U.S. Highway 69 Association in Kansas to further the group's effort to extend the four-lane highway from Arma to U.S. Highway 400 in Cherokee County.

A Mulberry man was injured in a one-vehicle accident late Friday near Girard. At 11:56 p.m. Friday, Christopher Davidson, 27, was injured when the 2001 Honda 400EX all-terrain vehicle he was driving overturned and landed on top of him as he was attempting to go up a creek embankment on private property west of Girard, according to the Crawford ...

Date: June 22, 2009 are really running amuck. Complaints of nests being made in flower gardens, complete with duck eggs.

COLUMBUS, Kan. - Cherokee County District Judge Kent Lynch on Tuesday sentenced Benjamin Burdick to nearly 15 1/2 years in prison on a conviction of methamphetamine manufacturing.

Pittsburg's Parks and Recreation Cepartment says the duck and geese population is overwealming in Lakeside Park.

A man is arrested after Pittsburg police respond to Schlanger Park for a suspicious man seen selling drugs.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - Local residents have made feeding the ducks and geese at Lakeside Park a form of entertainment for at least four decades.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - By July 10, more than 1,000 parents will have joined the student population at Pittsburg State University.

Authorities received a call Friday around 10:30 a.m. about a disturbance coming from 802 East Quincy Street.

As expected by the Kansas Association of School Boards, districts across the state are agreeing to significantly smaller increases in teacher salary packages compared to the past few years.

No injuries were reported in a fire reported at 10:26 a.m. Tuesday that burned a rear room of a home in Pittsburg.

JoAnn and Ralph Sigman recently made their way across the campus of Pittsburg State University, parting branches, peering under foliage.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - A group of 45 local children may be signing autographs for the first time by about 8:15 p.m. today, following what for many of them will be their first stage performance.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - More than a half million stimulus dollars are headed to Pittsburg State University to address long-deferred maintenance projects.

A longtime Pittsburg chiropractor believes a fire that destroyed his practice in April was a blessing in disguise.

A landmark Ravenna building - and 150 years of history locked inside it - all will go up for auction next month.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - Las Vegas was the theme, and there were plenty of winners at the annual Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce banquet Friday night at Memorial Auditorium.