Belle Plaine News

With harvested wheat pouring into grain elevators this week across Kansas' southern regions, the yields and quality are getting mixed reviews.

At the Belle Plaine Co-op, elevator manager Pete Nulik said Thursday that he has taken in about 75,000 bushels of wheat so far with test weights averaging about 57 pounds per bushel.

The Sumner County Sheriff's Office says it seized several dogs, ducks and a chicken from a home near Belle Plaine on June 8th.

Police pulled nine battered and starving pit bulls from a home in Belle Plaine. Now, their owner faces charges of animal abuse.

Bishop Carroll's Alyssa Northcutt fought off Ashley Bowman of Mill Valley and her own teammate to win the Class 5A pole vault.

Arkansas City police detectives have filed warrants for the arrest of an Andover man in a string of weekend burglaries, which occurred recently in Arkansas City.

The Sumner County Commission calls it 'a problem that's bigger than all of us'. They're responding to a homeowners concerns about consistent flooding in a neighborhood in Belle Plaine.

The Arkansas River which flows east of town has caused major flooding like the Ninnescah River.

Andover has mostly sophomores and juniors. Junior U Abby Hamblin was All-AV-CTL Division III in 2008.

This loud explosion made me jump from the computer chair I was sitting in at the time.

It would be hard to find anyone in Belle Plaine that hasn't heard about Alice Dierksen's wild weekend.

Andrea Myers was born Andrea Pierson. She grew up in Mulvane and graduated from Mulvane High School.

Four people are hurt after an accident early Saturday morning in Sumner County. Sumner County dispatchers say the accident happened around 4:45 a.m. about five miles south of Belle Plaine on Oliver Road.

There are two things you can count on in Belle Plaine, a parking spot in the middle of the street and people who won't miss a single issue of the hometown paper.

The winner had the single ticket that matched all numbers in the Saturday Hot Lotto drawing.

An employee of Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita has claimed a $2.76 million Hot Lotto jackpot.

The Sumner County town of Belle Plaine gained a millionaire Tuesday when an aircraft worker stepped forward to claim a $2.76 million lottery jackpot.

Two people died in crashes caused by icy roads this morning _ and more slick conditions are expected Christmas Eve morning in Wichita, forecasters say.

Slick road conditions are being blamed for a series of accidents in Southern Kansas, including two fatal accidents.

The weather may be to blame for two crashes that killed two people Tuesday morning.