Yates Center News

Staff photo by Michael Schweitzer. Marilyn Dean, of Yates Center, puts out price tags at her Wholesale Fireworks stand Tuesday morning in the parking lot of the Manhattan Town Center.

No person or organization is an island, functioning only within itself, and Tri-Valley Developmental Services is strengthened because of the dedication to the organization shown by many individuals within the communities we serve.

National Weather Service officials are warning that a rain-wrapped tornado may be on the ground east of Yates Center.A tornado warning is in effect until 2:30 p.m. for portions of Woodson and Allen counties.

The attorney general's office has charged a Wichita man with first-degree murder in the death of a man whose body was found this weekend.

NATURE is the original comeback kid. If you clear underbrush, it returns. Burn off a pasture and that just makes it greener quicker.

Hi Gin, I have lost the copy of the recent recipe for meringue you had in your column.

Wilson County emergency responders have resumed their search for a man who reportedly fell into Fall River at Middle Dam near Neodesha.Greg Fisher, 30, of Yates Center was with three other people Saturday when he reportedly fell into the water.

The Fall River dam northwest of Neodosha attracts a lot of visitors. Unfortunately, a growing number of them including 30-year-old Greg Fisher, never return home.

Wilson County search crews are looking for the body of man investigators say likely drown in Fall River near Neodesha.

Wilson County Emergency responders were called to the scene of an apparent drowning Saturday evening at Middle Dam near Neodesha on Fall River.

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Leo Eugene a oeBuda Laird, age 75, of Richmond, Kan., went fishing with the Lord on Wednesday, April 29, 2009.

The Adjutant General's Department now lists one electrocution by lightning and four drownings as a result of weekend storms.

Two people were found dead in a southeast Kansas creek Wednesday, bringing to five the number of deaths blamed on violent storms since the weekend.The state Division of Emergency Management said Labette County sheriff’s deputies found the bodies of a 26-year-old Parsons man and a 22-year-old woman from Springfield, Mo., early Wednesday.

Carey Spoon, executive director of the Yates Center Chamber of Commerce, says a new restaurant, The Feed Bunk, is drawing more people to the town's courthouse square.

Greenwood County emergency workers said they found the body of 20 year old Joshua Smith of Yates Center along the banks of the flooded Verdigris River.

QUINCY a ' Authorities say they have found the body of a man whose truck was swept off the road during flooding in southeast Kansas.

High water is to blame for a deadly accident in Greenwood County. Sheriff Mark Kenneson says it happened at about 11 o'clock Monday night on 200th St, a county road, east of EE Rd.

I had the pleasure of watching one of the films that is going to be featured at the Okanagan International Film Festival.

How have you been affected by the lack of jobs and layoffs? I think we're doing fine.