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Birth Jalynn Hockett Last Updated: September 25, 2008 Derik and Tricia Hockett of Satanta, Kan., are the proud parents of a baby boy.

Hugoton residents could visit liquor stores on Sundays starting in October if the Hugoton City Council's decision to allow alcohol sales is not petitioned by the community.

"Whiskey + Pills = Lady Shake," by Thunder Eagle, from Whiskey + Pills = Lady Shake : It's a sticky, humid Friday night at the Westport Beach Club.

LAWRENCE Addressing an urgent need in the state, the University of Kansas is making a commitment to the growing number of Latino families to ensure college accessibility.

The task was to round up the three steers with the right tag and bring them around to the east side of the ring and into the chute.

Larry and Vicki Baer of Topeka announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda, to Jason Wright, both of Thornton, Colo. via Newton Kansan

“Gas tractors are tearing the whole country upside down in western Kansas and at the present rate the famous short-grass pasturage will be a thing of the past.”

This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating Kansas history. The series' name comes from the state motto, Ad astra per aspera: 'To the stars through difficulties.'

BY BECCY TANNER

Churning and puttering, tractors rapidly changed the Kansas landscape by the early 1930s.

Gone were the days of the one-horse-one-steel-bottomed plow. Horses were defunct.

World War I had ended and Henry Ford had come up with an affordable contraption.

Enter the Fordson.

It could be purchased for less than a $1,000 and promised to do the work of four mules. Read more

“Trombone is one of the most difficult instruments to play because you can't hit a button to get the right note”

He transformed from a child who played the trombone because it looked easy to a composer of symphonies. via The Garden City Telegram