Court proceedings are advancing against two men charged in Lyon County District Court with kidnapping and other charges. Michael Baldridge and Charles Tatman had a combined preliminary hearing Monday -- and were set for separate arraignment hearings afterward. Baldridge will appear July 17, while Tatman will be back in...

A pretrial hearing is ahead for a defendant in a Lyon County drug distribution case. Leobardo Castillo-Bedolla faces one county of distributing up to 100 grams of cocaine as part of an alleged incident almost a month ago. The hearing will be at 2 pm July 9.

Trial is the next step for a Coffey County resident accused of sex-related crimes. Roy Anthony Hernandez faces nearly 30 counts, ranging from indecent liberties to sodomy and rape, against two alleged victims from October 2014 to April 2016. Prosecutors say one of the alleged victims was as young as 9 when the abuse st...

Budget requests will continue for the Lyon County Commission during their upcoming action meeting later this week. Commissioners will have two requests set to be presented, the first coming from the North Central Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging and the second from the Neosho Rapids Senior Center. Separately, commissio...

SOS Inc. has received nearly $5,000 from another Emporia institution following a successful fundraiser last month. Members of the ESB Financial leadership team met with SOS representatives Tuesday afternoon to deliver a check for $4,659 to support the agency's work in the local community. The dollars were generated by ...

The high school baseball season may be over, but one of Council Grove's top players will have one more opportunity to take the field this summer. Council Grove senior Maxton Villalobos has been selected to play in the Kansas Association of Baseball Coaches All-State Game, scheduled for Wednesday, June 17, at noon at Ec...

Emporia State men's basketball coach Tom Billeter has hired Justin Tabor to join his staff for 2026-27. Tabor replaces Devin Whitelow who departed the program in April to join the staff at Northern Illinois. Tabor was an assistant last year at UMKC and was the Director of Player Development the previous three years f...

One of the best Kansas baseball seasons in school history came to an end in a 13-2 defeat to former Big 8 rival Oklahoma on Monday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence, Kan. OU smothered KU in the series allowing just three total runs on the way to sweeping the best-of-three series. The game started on Sunday an...

The University of Kansas baseball team is hoping a break in the corner will help after taking two big knockout blows in the Lawrence Super Regional this weekend. Oklahoma decked the Jayhawks 8-1 in game one of the best-of-three series at Hoglund Ballpark by outhitting the hosts 11-4. Oklahoma held an 8-1 lead in the ...

The Centennial League announced All-League soccer honors on Monday. Emporia High placed three across the top two teams. Emersyn Johnson and Reagan Herrman earned placement on the First Team. Viveca Fuller received recognition on the Second Team. Honorable Mentions went to Madison Evans and Emma Swindle. The Black and R...