A 32-year-old woman from Lorraine, KS is facing a charge of second-degree murder after a two-car crash early Friday morning. According to Captain Jim Hughes with the Saline County Sheriff’s Office, Kayla Errebo was taken into custody following a head-on collision near the intersection of South Reese Road and K-140 Highway around 5:35 am Friday. Deputies say 55-year-old Deanna Sommerfeld of Brook...
The Central Kansas Free Fair Royalty contest honors 4-H members who have shown outstanding leadership in the 4-H Youth Development Program. Each Dickinson County 4-H club is allowed to nominate one queen and one king candidate. Following nomination by their club, the King, Queen, and their attendants are determined based on a written application and interview process. The 2025 Cent...
TRIUMPHING OVER ADVERSITY Horse overcomes disability, will compete with Abilene cowgirl at Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo Abilene, Kan. (July 28, 2025) – A special horse will be the mount for an Abilene cowgirl this weekend. Jackie the horse might be blind, but that doesn’t make her useless. This week, at the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo in Abilene, Kansas, Lindsey Hughes will breakaway rope ...
Nursing home residents take in a night of the Abilene rodeo Every year, the residents at Village Manor in Abilene, Kansas get a special treat. They attend the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo. For more than a dozen years, the staff at Village Manor transports the residents to the Central Kansas Free Fairgrounds in Abilene, where the residents sit on the west side of the arena, watching ...
PINK: MORE THAN A COLOR Ruth Nicolaus Abilene rodeo partners with local cancer fund to raise money Abilene, Kan. (July 7, 2025) – The Zillyettes: Jeff and Cheryl, have had a tumultuous few years. The husband and wife duo, of Herington, Kansas, have both had cancer, with Jeff suffering a remission and having it a second time. It started in November of 2023 when Jeff, a painter, didn�...
Kansans turned out along 236 miles of lonely roads and highways Tuesday afternoon to honor a fallen sheriff deputy who was making his final trip home. Phillips County Sheriff Deputy Brandon Gaede was shot and killed Friday night while responding to a fireworks call in Phillipsburg. Gaede was escorted back home to Phillipsburg from a forensic science center in Wichita on Tuesday afternoon. The es...
An Abilene area state representative will be moving across the hall to the senate in Topeka. Saline and Dickinson County Republicans convened earlier this week to elect a person to fill the District 24 Senate Seat, which became vacant when JR Claeys resigned on June 2nd to begin a job with the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington DC. Retired Saline County Treasurer Jim Dubois, and...
PictureCourtesy of Geary County Sheriffs Department Two people have been arrested after authorities seized $4 million in drug possession in Geary County. According to Geary County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook post, on June 1 and 2, a coordinated multi-jurisdictional criminal enforcement effort was conducted along the I-70 corridor through Geary County. The operation was aimed at locating, id...
A massive data center is being planned in Wyandotte County. The Unified Government Planning Commission will hold a special session tomorrow to consider a request from New York-based Red Wolf DCD Properties to rezone 24 acres northwest of the Kansas Speedway for the project. Plans call for the construction of six buildings on the property. ...
Memorial Health System (MHS) has announced the upcoming closure of its Heartland Health Care Clinic location in Herington, with operations scheduled to end by June 6, 2025. This difficult decision follows a comprehensive evaluation of patient volumes and long-term sustainability of services in the area. The Herington clinic opened in May 2024, following the abrupt closure of the local hospital....
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