Last year, scams began harassing the Kansas Department of Transportation and Kansas Turnpike Authority on a semi-regular basis. The overall scam effort has returned. Both KDOT and the Kansas Department of Revenue say there is a "smishing" campaign, where text messages direct people to phony links. In this cas...

The next step in the process of closing down the Americus Police Department will be a full inventory of the department's files and materials. That was the determination of the Americus City Council members during their most recent meeting Tuesday evening. Americus Mayor Dustin Wright. There is no official agreement bet...

Emporia Fire had a busy Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters put out a small leaf fire in the 800 block of Walnut shortly after 3 pm, following that incident with a response to a vehicle fire at 377 West US Highway 50 around 4:40 pm before a grass fire near Roads 160 and P around 5 pm. Details are pending with all three inc...

The details are different, but the underlying concern is the same after the Kansas House and Senate passed separate budget versions over the last two weeks. The concern: balancing revenues versus expenses. 17th District Senator Mike Argabright of Olpe echoes recent comments from House 60th District Representative Mark ...

Visit Emporia has announced one round of recipients for its Tourism Grants. Director Matt Fowler says the goal is to use part of the city's transient guest tax revenues to generate more such money through different community events. Recipients were: *Champions Landing *Flatland Cruisers *Folk Alliance Region Midwest *F...

The Emporia State softball team celebrated an Opening Day sweep at the Trusler Sports Complex in Emporia on Sunday. ESU opened up their first home action of the year winning a 10-6 slugfest over Augustana. The Vikings scored five in the second to take the lead, but ESU answered with the next ten runs. ESU chipped awa...

The Emporia State athletics department was in action in multiple sports over the weekend. The Hornet baseball team couldn't follow up on a win in game one and fell two games to one to #3 Pittsburg State in their three-game series at the Trusler Sports Complex in Emporia over the weekend. The Hornet bats were quieted i...

KSHSAA has set the State Tournament assignments for the opening round in basketball. New this year, locations for the first games were set based off proximity of the matchups. Boys: Lebo punched their ticket to the 1AD2 tourney for a fourth straight year and will start against Victoria at White Auditorium in Emporia. T...

Osage City topped Burlington 62-43 Saturday in the West Franklin Sub-State Final in Pomona. The Lady Indians raced out to a 22-12 lead. Osage City grew the advantage to 36-25 at half. The lead grew to 14 after three 51-37. The Lady Indians improve to 23-3 and will take on Girard in the first round of the 3A State Tou...

The season came to a close for Waverly Saturday night as Hutchinson Central Christian pulled away late to claim the Class 1A Division II Sub-State Championship, defeating the Bulldogs 55-47. The opening quarter set the tone for a competitive contest, with both teams trading baskets throughout the period. Waverly kept p...