Ulysses News

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Flames didn't take long to tear through a building in Ulysses in southwest Kansas Tuesday afternoon.

Arnie Sarlo was one of 53 young cattle producers selected to participate in the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's 30th Annual Young Cattlemen's Conference.

Larry Eugene Young, 42, died May 21, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was born April 16, 1967 at Russell, Kansas, the son of Francis L. "Butch" and Roxana Young.

Ramiro Garza Jr. of Ulysses was bound over for trial after a preliminary hearing Thursday in Grant County District Court.

A retired Green Beret from Kansas is killed in Iraq. Forty-two-year-old Larry Young died last week while on civilian duty.

Ivan and Kathy Edsall, Victoria, and Jerry Spiess, Hays, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Melanie Rae Spiess, to Ryan Henry Pearson, son of Sharon Pearson, Ulysses, and Roger and Teresa Pearson, Ellsworth.

Middle school and high school students today are used to carrying iPods, cell phones and laptops.

An early spring blizzard howled across Kansas on Friday, closing sections of several major highways and coating parts of the state with branch-breaking ice.

Scholarship winners Laura Carlson, Lindsborg, and Manuel Garcia, Ulysses, are both studying in Prague, Czech Republic, in the spring 2009 semester.

The Hugoton USD 210 Board of Education voted Monday night by a 6-0 count with one abstention to accept an invitation to join the Great West Activities Conference, a newly organized league of Class 3A and 4A ...

ANNE SCHMIDT Understanding government is key to being a good citizen. Thata s one of the lessons top Santa Fe teacher K.C. Williams leaves with the students in his class.

Three people were killed in accidents on southwest Kansas roads Tuesday, including 4-year-old boy who was hit by a tractor-trailer truck as he tried to cross a street on his bicycle.

The Grant County Sheriff's Department responded to an accident on Highway 25 in Ulysses around 6 p.m. Tuesday.