Baldwin City News

More than 100 people descended on the small town of Whiting in northeastern Kansas this past weekend to renovate Rosa Thomas' Whiting Cafe.

Don Coldsmith, a family physician who gained fame as the author of the Spanish Bit Saga novels about the Plains Indians, has died.

Green Bay Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy and the Packers organization have partnered to make a $100,000 donation to Baker University, his alma mater.

Today in Baldwin CIty. No preregistration. Check-in begins at 8 a.m. $10 fee. Information: info@baldwincitychamber.com or 594-3200 or call Jim at 594-3476. KMCA Professional Truck Driving Championships - Competition continues today at Kansas Expocentre.

I went looking for trouble Thursday morning and found none not that Im complaining.My excursion on the big red road bike took me through Lenexa, Overland Park, Prairie Village, Mission Hills and parts of south Kansas City.While tooling through Waldo and Brookside, not once did a hothead motorist flip me off, call me a bleeping bleepedy-bleep or ...

Another round of storms in the Midwest spawned several apparent tornadoes, damaging homes and businesses and knocking out power to thousands.In Minnesota, daylight Thursday revealed a path of destruction left by an apparent tornado in the town of Austin, where vehicles were tossed about, homes were heavily damaged and power lines were knocked down.

If he was short of breath, it didn't show when Tom Wilson strode into the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services office along Brown Avenue on Friday afternoon.

The metro area is under a flash flood warning this morning following a night of strong storms that brought heavy rains, lightning and strong winds to the area.Up to four inches of rain fell in parts of the metropolitan area overnight, and the rain continues to fall this morning.KCP&L estimates almost 20,000 of its customers are still without power ...

June 20 in Baldwin CIty. No preregistration. Check-in begins at 8 a.m. $10 fee. Information: info@baldwincitychamber.com or 594-3200 or call Jim at 594-3476. Motel T's Ocean to Ocean 100-year 1909 Commemorative Endurance Race - June 26 at Santa Fe Cafe in Burlingame.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas will recognize 129 participants from 17 states as the first graduates of Mini College, a week-long learning retreat on campus in which adults became students again.

Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Carswell, Hays, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Kelli Marie, to Dustin Hofmeier, son of Mr.

Tess Oliphant will play softball for Feather River College. She was a member of the Reed Raiders' golf, volleyball, and softball teams, and was also a member of the honor society.

In 1939, producer David O. Selznick stopped production of "Gone With the Wind" and locked himself in his office with director Victor Fleming and screenwriter Ben Hecht to rework the screenplay.

Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, has awarded scholarships of $2,000 each to four University of Kansas students for 2009-10. The KU students were among 234 students nationwide who earned the awards.

The statea s high-tech job development organization responded Tuesday to a decision by the governor to line-item veto all funding for the agency.

This article originally appeared in SLJ's Extra Helping. Sign up now! Kathy Miller, Baldwin Junior High School, Baldwin City, KS -- School Library Journal, 4/10/2009 Masterpiece .

The Kansas City Chiefs have signed wide receiver Rodney Wright and long snapper Tanner Purdum.

Travelers of Prairie Spirit Rail Trail soon will see the light - along the trail, that is.

James B. Pearson came to Kansas by accident, settled in Johnson County, entered politics and eventually represented the state for 17 years in the U.S. Senate.Pearson, a Republican, died in January at age 88 but was remembered Friday during a memorial service at the First United Methodist Church in Baldwin City near a farm he owned.

The women came in long, hoop skirts and bonnets and the men in cowboy hats with six-shooters strapped around their waists.For most of the weekend, the Old West lived again at the Jack Reardon Civic Center in Kansas City, Kan.Re-enactors in love with this period of American history flocked to the center for the National Congress of Old West ...