Wilson County News

Three children were uninjured when the school bus they were riding in crashed Tuesday afternoon in Wilson County.

A tornado, filled with swirling dirt, grinds across a farm road in western Kansas on May 8, 2008.

Heavy rain causes problems across Wilson County. Emergency officials there estimate seven to eight inches of rain fell in parts of Wilson County over 24 hours.

A collision between a southbound SKO train and an eastbound one ton truck and trailer hauling hay injured the truck driver, and blocked the tracks near 700 and Gove Roads approximately 4 miles southwest of Fredonia at about 8:30 Tuesday morning.

A collision between a southbound SKO train and an eastbound 1 ton truck and trailer hauling hay injured the truck driver, and blocked the tracks near 700 and Gove Roads approximately 4 miles southwest of Fredonia at about 8:30 Tuesday morning.

A young victim of an accidental shooting has been identified. Wilson County authorities said Tanner Kahler, 12, died as a result of Monday's shooting.

The Wilson County Sheriff's Department says deputies were called to a rural Wilson County residence late Monday morning after an apparent accidental shooting involving a 12 year old boy and a 14 year old boy.

A 12-year-old boy is shot and killed, and investigators say it was an accident. The shooting happened at a rural home in Wilson County.

Greg Fisher, of Yates Center, was with three other people Saturday night when he fell from the Middle Dam into the water near Neodesha .

Wilson County emergency responders have resumed their search for a man who reportedly fell into Fall River at Middle Dam near Neodesha.

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.

WILSON COUNTY, Kansas Rescuers have suspended the search for a man who they believe drowned in the Fall River Saturday night.

When her son, Jermey, left the house at 5:30 Friday morning to go to work, Carol Jacobsen was lying on the couch watching television.It was the last time a family member would see her alive."That was what she was doing when the storm hit," said Warren Ford, her father-in-law.Within an hour, family members would hear news that the tiny town of New ...

Severe weather has left one person dead in Wilson County. Emergency management officials in Wilson County say a person died in New Albany.

Heavy rain and high winds raked southeast Kansas on Friday, flipping idled airplanes and cutting off power to more than 21,000 customers.

Authorities say one person was killed and a church collapsed in southeast Kansas as heavy thunderstorms swept through the region.

Wilson County Emergency Management is responding to damage from straight line winds and hail which hit the area about 4 am this morning.

Admiral Bay Resources Inc. has acquired additional producing gas assets in the Kansas Cherokee Basin from an undisclosed private seller for approximately US$2 million.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has issued a boil water advisory for water customers of Wilson County Rural Water Districts #10 and #11A, and for customers of the City of Buffalo.