Wabaunsee County News

The Kansas Highway Patrol said State Rep. Bob Bethell, a Republican from Alden, died Sunday night when his car went off Interstate 70 near the Paxico exit west of Topeka.

The Kansas Highway patrol is investigating a fatal one vehicle accident in Wabaunsee county, that took the life of a 69-year-old man Sunday, who served in the state legislature.

WABAUNSEE CO., Kan. -- A Kansas Lawmaker is dead after his vehicle ran off the interstate Sunday night in Wabaunsee County.

Officials say the vehicle was westbound on I-70, near the Paxico exit, when it ran off the road, into a ditch and flipped.

One person was killed in a one-vehicle wreck Sunday night on Interstate 70 in Wabaunsee County, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.

A traffic stop of a Mercedes GL450 passing through Wabaunsee County on Interstate 70 this past April has resulted in the indictment of an Arizona man accused of hiding 34 pounds of cocaine in the vehicle.

The second statewide Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest will kick off June 8 in Alma, in conjunction with the annual Symphony in the Flint Hills concert, according to a news release.

A Colorado man who was arrested on Interstate 70 in Wabaunsee County with more than a pound of methamphetamine has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison.

A Wabaunsee County man was arrested early Wednesday after he yelled obscenities at police and struggled with officers following an attempted traffic stop in East Topeka, authorities said.

Harveyville, hard-hit by an EF-2 tornado on Feb. 28, received $245,747 in relief funds from a Department of Commerce program, according to a department statement released Thursday.