Clay Center News

The United Rebel Sprint Series made their second appearance of the 2009 Season at Hutchinson Raceway Park to kick off the Fourth of July weekend triple-header. With fireworks lighting up the sky, in the distance Mother Nature was providing her own show, the action on the track had its share of fireworks as well.

This is day ten of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association and Kansas Wheat.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says Clay Center police officers used justifiable force when they fatally shot a 66-year-old man on June 14.

After meeting with Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn, Clay Center Police Chief Bill Robinson and Clay County Attorney Rick James, the KBI investigator ruled that the shooting of Clay Center resident Ronald Hughes was justified under the circumstances and the officers involved acted professionally.

Police continue to investigate a weekend shooting death. Police say they found 24 year old Alfred Mack Jr.

"We are in no way, shape or form, upset with the officers. They did what they had to do," Ron Hughes' son Ken said Monday afternoon.

A Clay Center man was shot to death by law enforcement officers who were called to a home about a domestic dispute.

A high-speed chase through Manhattan neighborhoods and through Riley and Clay Counties reached speeds of 90 mph Thursday afternoon and ended when police used a vehicle to push the suspect off the road.

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture.

The Kansas equine recently confirmed positive for rabies first presented with lameness in the right forelimb, according to attending veterinarian David Salava, DVM, of the Salava Veterinary Clinic in Clay Center, Kan.

A horse in Kansas has tested positive for rabies, according to an article from the Clay Center Dispatch that was circulated via Pro-MED, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

An 85-year-old woman was killed after being injured in a head-on crash Wednesday in Clay Center, authorities said.

Workers from Orders Construction take down the old Clay Center parking lot sign Monday at the northeast corner of Leon Sullivan Way and Washington Street.

Six Salina businesses sold or provided alcoholic beverages to a minor Friday in a Salina Police Department sting operation.

She was driving a car eastbound at 8 p.m. on Kansas Highway 80, attempting a left turn onto Kansas Highway 15, when the car collided with a pickup truck that was southbound on K15, according to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol.

National forecasts are grim for commercial real estate through the end of this year.

Gov. Mark Parkinson has appointed several north-central and northwest Kansas residents to boards and committees.

The majority of Kansas politicians are interested in power, not truth. When it comes to the environment, they resist listening to science, the citizens of Kansas, the rest of the country and the world.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 5--Over half of the $107,000 the school board approved Monday in summer maintenance projects went toward improvements to Wakefield Schools.

Liby, who has worked for Clay County for 35 years, told lottery officials he plans to pay bills with his winnings.