Alva Review-Courier -

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Grass fires fanned by gusting winds scorched swaths of Kansas grassland Monday, forcing the evacuations of two tiny towns and the closure of some roads, including a couple of short stretches of Interstate 70.

Authorities in south-central Kansas' Clark County, which borders Oklahoma, cleared out the roughly six dozen residents of Englewood and the 870 residents of Ashland — the county seat — on Monday afternoon as grass fires that began in Oklahoma pressed closer. Englewood residents were instructed to head to Oklahoma, while Ashland residents were pressed to head east t...