St. Marys News

One of the Army medics who helped victims of last week's shootings at Fort Hood is from the Topeka area.

Residents of the Pottawatomie County community of Emmett will get to weigh in on the proposed closing of their town's grade school at a special hearing next month.

Emmett Grade School head teacher David Steele and parent Amy VandeVelde talk Wednesday about the ramifications of closing Emmett Grade School in Pottawatomie County.

Kansas State Board of Education members learned Tuesday that for the ninth straight year, Kansas students have steadily made gains in reading and math.

Gail Nichols has suffered from depression for years. When the 49-year-old resident of St.

The Kansas Department of Transportation says beacons are to be installed by this fall at the site of a fatal accident west of Mayetta.

Manhattan debates alcohol sales on Sundays. Manhattan storeowners say nearby communities, like Ogden and Wamego, are taking their business by allowing Sunday sales, and they want to even out the playing field.

No, Shirley Phelps-Roper won't be seeing the new film, "Bruno." But she is in it.

It looked like destruction, because it was. But progress has a way of disguising itself sometimes.

Many of the twenty-one people arrested in 'Operation White Pistol' are being held at the Shawnee County Department of Corrections Twenty-one people from across the state of Kansas are behind bars tonight for drug trafficking.

The Vatican said Wednesday if the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X proceeds as planned this month with the ordination of new priests, including two Kansas men from St.

Silver Lake firefighters ventilate a home at 307 Chestnut where a passerby alerted the occupant of a fire.

A child is the first Pottawatomie county resident to catch swine flu. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the local health department is using its guidelines to handle the case.

USD 321 closes Delia Charter School Concerned USD 321 parents and teachers gathered Monday night in St.

A boy playing with fireworks is said to be behind what turned into a massive fire that levelled three buildings.

Fire officials in Pottawatomie County are investigating a blaze Friday that destroyed three buildings and temporarily knocked out power to residents in the small town of Emmett, about 35 miles northwest of Topeka.

The Kansas Corporation Commission announced Friday it had approved a rate increase for Westar Energy customers beginning June 1. Under what is known as the Environmental Cost Recovery Rider, the KCC allows Westar to recover costs associated with federally mandated improvements.

ST. MARYS, Kan. -- Laura Anna Headley, RN, passed away here on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, with her family by her side, after a brief illness.

During the campaign for the 2003 school board election, we and several other Unified School District 321 patrons tried to convince the voters to combine our two high schools into one.

The Kaw Valley Unified School District 321 Board of Education has called a special meeting to discuss the closing of Delia Charter School, district officials said.