Laughter is often called the best medicine and there was plenty of it to go around at the fourth annual Crosswinds Counseling and Wellness Stand Up to Stigma event Friday night. Providing the laughter was comedian hypnotist Aaron Wayne, who told KVOE News he was "honored" to have been asked to perform for suc...

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has pardoned a man convicted in Lyon County over 25 years ago. Chung Pham was 21 when he was convicted in 1993 for aggravated battery, serving 32 months in prison followed by 24 months of post-release supervision. Kelly says she factored the nature of the offense, length of time, victim/surv...

Denim and Diamonds season is officially here. The annual slate of activities as part of Newman Regional Health's largest yearly fundraiser kicked off Friday with the third Denim and Diamonds golf tournament at the Emporia Golf Course. According to Newman Event and Donor Coordinator Jelinda Watts, who joined the Newman ...

The juvenile runaway who triggered a local BOLO alert Thursday afternoon is now facing escape and theft charges in connection with the incident. According to Emporia Police, 16-year-old Benjamin Bowman was apprehended in the 1100 block of East Street late Thursday afternoon after he had been identified as a runaway juv...

Sinkhole repairs continue in downtown Emporia. City Engineer Jim Ubert says a better-than-50-inch storm sewer line has been installed. Pavement should be placed by early next week, with another week of cure time needed after that. Cinco de Mayo is planned Saturday, and the celebration will be slightly compressed as far...

Senior Night Sweep for Emporia High baseball over Iola on Friday. The Spartans walked off in nine innings 5-4 in game one. EHS spotted the Mustangs a three run advantage. Emporia started the comeback in the fifth scoring two. Oliver Kline singled in a run and Micah Gray grounded out to bring in another. Emporia tied it...

Emporia High softball ended a four game losing skid with a split Friday in Iola. The Lady Spartans scored in every inning for the 14-2 victory in game one. Delaney Davis got Emporia on the board with a two-run in the first. Molly Williams plated the third run of the game with s double in the second. The Lady Spartans b...

The Emporia State baseball team took the series over Northeastern State 10-1 on Friday. NSU got on the board first in the second inning, but the Hornets rolled late scoring nine runs in the fifth inning and later. Four runs scored in the fourth with three coming on an Evan Abbott home run. Frankie Santiago launched ...

The Emporia State baseball team opened their final series of the regular season by run-ruling the Northeastern State RiverHawks 12-2 in eight innings. The Hornets took a 7-0 lead through three with a five-run third inning. Brady Unrein plated four of the runs with ESU's first hit of the day, a grand slam to left fiel...

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