Beloit News

Rachel Adkins of Glasco couldn't get her instant scratch ticket checked by the store clerk Thursday for the simple reason that she refused to let go of it Adkins really, truly did win $25,000. It was confirmed Friday when she finally had to let go of her $5 Wheel & Deal ticket to claim it at Lottery headquarters.

Two children riding in a car a ' a boy, 11, and a girl, 8, of Beloit a ' were taken to Mitchell County Hospital with minor injuries, according to Lincoln County Undersheriff Les Richards.

According to the Kansas Attorney Generala TMs Office, the jury deliberated for about nine hours Thursday and two and a half hours Friday before declaring Gericke, 23, guilty in connection with the death of his girlfrienda TMs 11-month-old daughter.

Janet Thiessen, in her 20s and barely out of the police academy, cradled the troubled teenage boy as he died.

The Chautauqua performers include Fred Krebs as Louisiana Senator Huey Long, left, Doug Watson as humorist Will Rogers, Patrick McGinnis as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wanda Schell as Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston and Tonia Compton as evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

Across town from North Central Kansas Technical College's main campus, located near Commerce Parkway, a variety of educational courses soon could be taught in downtown Hays.

Father Don McCarthy and Father Roger Meitl have traveled their fair share of road in northern Kansas.

If you throw out the legal jargon hinged to school consolidation, Tuesday's question to school patrons in Jewell County has two possible outcomes, and one isn't on the ballot.

The Nebraska City administrative search committee has trimmed its list of city administrator candidates to three.

NOTE: Top-two finishers in above regionals will advance to sub-states at El Dorado and Emporia.

Ben Gericke of Beloit is facing first-degree murder and child abuse charges in the death of Stevie Dawn Mull last July.

Fifty-six Washburn University students are included in the 2008-09 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Shelby Broeckelman, Beloit, Kan., has signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Bethany College for the 2009-2010 academic year.