Haskell County News

Mark and Leah Shapland, Dighton, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Lacey Rae Shapland, to Nicholas James Noterman, son of Randy and Sheri Noterman, Niwot, Colo.

"Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by ecclesiastical bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history," - James Madison A more recent example of "the danger of encroachment" is described in numerous articles ...

Monday, June 15, 2009 The weekend storms visited many parts of Western Kansas, but perhaps no area got hit as hard as one feed lot just north of Tice.

Severe storms that brought tornadoes, wind gusts, hail and rain caused some damage around the area Sunday night.

At least four tornadoes touched down Sunday amid severe thunderstorms that swept southwestern and south-central Kansas.

Storms with heavy winds have hit southern Kansas, blowing a semi trailer off a highway in Haskell County and damaging sheds in Ford County.

Heavy rainfall is likely overnight, but National Weather Service meteorologists say the Topeka area should be free of severe weather into Monday morning.

Severe springtime weather is nothing new in southwest Kansas. That doesn't make it any less frightening, we were reminded Wednesday when the threat of tornadoes triggered storm sirens in Garden City and the region a ' warnings that, hopefully, had local residents taking shelter in basements and other safe places.

And lo it came to pass. Four years ago, Sir Liam Donaldson predicted that a new pandemic was "inevitable". "It's happened before, in 1918, 1958 and 1969," the chief medical officer informed Andrew Marr on the BBC's Sunday AM programme.

Officials are reporting minor damage from a tornado that touched down near Garden City Wednesday night.

John Coker watched the wall cloud coming toward him while standing in the middle of the field and realized he had no other choice but to jump inside a tractor, put on his seat belt and ride out the storm.

Snapped power lines and overturned irrigation systems are being reported after several tornadoes touched down in southwest Kansas.

At the height of World War I, an early wave of the influenza epidemic in Haskell County and at Camp Funston at Fort Riley went relatively unnoticed during the spring of 1918.

A three-vehicle accident on U.S. 83 near the Finney-Haskell county line sent three people to a Garden City hospital at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.