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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:10 a.m. – Garfield County advised they were going to be doing a search and they needed a list of all stolen things in our county. 1:33 p.m. – Medic was needed for a male with numbness who recently had heart surgery. Med...

April 20, 2020 Medicine Lodge Police Department and Barber County Sheriff’s Office (MLPD and BASO) responded to a domestic disturbance on Central Avenue. BASO investigated a report of theft in Hardtner. MLPD investigated a report of suspicious a...

Voters in Alfalfa County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the June 30 Primary Election and Special County Election need to apply now, County Election Board Secretary Kelly Stein said today. There are also three Board of Education...

Jay Hague, Stan Tucker and Marvin Woodall met Monday morning, starting with the usual items of business: last week's meeting minutes, maintenance and operation payment warrants, and blanket purchase orders. Those were all approved, along with...

The Burlington Class of 2020 plans their graduation for Friday, May 22, at 7 p.m. For the first time in anyone's memory, the BHS commencement will be held outside on a grass lawn north of the school. This change is due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

In this unprecedented time with the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans' way of life as we know it has been drastically different the past two months. One of the biggest changes is that school buildings are closed in the nationwide effort to stop spread of...

That ugly COVID-19 pandemic keeps rearing its ugly head. This time it's messing with the Nescatunga Arts Festival. The headline says the festival is postponed until Aug. 8. You're thinking – an outdoor festival in August – no way! Everyone will have...

The Woods County Economic Development Committee (WCEDC) still hasn’t made a public decision on hiring an executive director. During a special meeting Monday noon at the Northwest Technology Center in Alva, the WCEDC came out of executive session a...

One of the first things the Legislature will tackle when it returns to session May 4 is the budget for Fiscal Year 2021. When the state Board of Equalization met in February, it certified $8.244 billion for the Legislature to appropriate for FY21....

On Sunday the Alva Public Schools ran a brief legal notice stating they’re taking bids on school pictures for next year. Specifications may be picked up at the administration office at 418 Flynn. The notice was in the Alva Review-Courier. I’m not...

At least in one sense it's been an ideal offseason for Drew Lock. Broncos GM John Elway declared the second-year passer his established starter. Then, he went out and added old hands and fast feet in the kind of offensive makeover quarterbacks...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Restaurant dining rooms, retail stores and some offices began reopening Monday after Kansas lifted a statewide stay-at-home order, though some business owners hesitated, still concerned about the novel coronavirus. Gov. Laura K...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The attorneys general for 11 Midwestern states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to pursue a federal investigation into market concentration and potential price fixing by meatpackers in the cattle industry during t...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (AP) — Suburban Kansas City police responding to a welfare check Tuesday found a 19-year-old man dead with a gunshot wound, a shooting authority said they are investigating as a homicide. Prairie Village officers found Kiven M...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who died in a shootout in which he killed a police officer was struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and had become increasingly threatening while awaiting trial on burglary and assault charges, according to a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A suspect in the April shooting death of an 18-year-old Wichita woman told a friend he chased down the car the woman was in and "unloaded" a semi-automatic rifle on the car following a fight at a local trailer park, according t...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The University of Louisiana System is trying to draw more adult learners who didn't finish their college degrees back to school by offering them cheaper tuition. System President Jim Henderson announced the tuition cut plans T...