Benton News

If your New Year's Eve plans are looking thin, no need to stay home with Dick Clark.

A free Christmas car give away for five lucky people. It probably sounds too good to be true and come to find out it is.

Emily Weiss invented the Weiss Walkie, but she did not name it. ''It's a horrible name, but it's now stuck,'' said Weiss, a certified animal behaviorist from Benton, Kan., who designed a no-pull dog-walking device that has become a hit with humane societies.

Thousands of Wichita school district students risk not being able to return to school if they don't get required vaccinations before Jan.

One of the Kansas Humane Society's adoptable dogs uses the Weiss Walkie leash on Thursday, November 19, 2009.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Do you plan for your child to get the H1N1 vaccination? Your vote has been counted, thank you for voting.

Preparing to administer vaccines to students at Peterson Elementary. Students learning about the vaccinations.

Wichita schools will begin offering H1N1, or swine flu, vaccines at four elementaries on Friday.

Benton teacher Tiffany Robinson helps Aysia Chavez, right, write her question for President Obama while classmates Hannah Walling and Triston Mathers.

The Butler County man suspected of killing Carol Mould will be in court for his arraignment today.

Mums were very beautiful......always a sign of Autumn. Location: Botanica Wichita Date: Sept.

If you see a really long, oddly-shaped trailer decorated with a Kansas State University PowerCat headed down the highway or notice one of K-State at Salina's Cessna 172s landing at an airport near you, there is no cause for alarm.

It's not entirely true that doctors earn a lot of money. Some earn a lot more. When the Kansas Department of Labor published its 2005 wage survey, the 10 highest-paid occupations were all doctors.

Kansas Profile - Now Thats Rural Silver Screen Cowboy Museum By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.

For Dale Kenny, performing isn't just about the music. Though he's been singing since age 6 and performing in clubs and bars around Wichita for years, there's something greater than drums and guitars that drives him.

The first day of Thomas Etheredge's preliminary hearing Monday turned into a succession of angry testimony from investors who lost money they invested with the founder of Wild West World.

A fundraiser has been scheduled to help a 10-year-old girl who was badly burned in a fire in March.

You'll never have to teach a panda to walk on a leash. But if any kind of animal lives in your house, trainers at the zoo have some useful lessons for you.

Editor's note: Traveler Webmaster Andrew Lawson live blogged during Tuesday's hearing.

R.W. Hampton - He will perform at the Prairie Rose Chuckwagon, 15231 SW Parallel Road, in Benton on Saturday.