El Dorado News

Editor's note: Dave Seaton is a member of the prison task force. Further cuts in the budget of the State Department of Corrections may be coming, Winfield Correctional Facility Warden Emmalee Conover told a task force formed to support the facility at a meeting Thursday.

New University of Kansas students and their parents from Butler, Elk and Greenwood counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16, in El Dorado.

RaeLeann Smith 757-622-7382 El Dorado, Kan. -- This morning, PETA sent a letter to El Dorado Mayor Tom McKibban and the City Commission urging them to enact legislation that would ban the use of bullhooks, electric prods, and other devices commonly used to inflict pain on elephants.

A man suspected of killing a Kansas college student makes his first court appearance in Butler County.

EL DORADO, KAN. a 'Israel Mireles, who was arrested in Mexico just across the border from Texas in the murder of a Kansas college coed who led a double life as an Internet porn star has made his first court appearance.

Israel Mireles from Junie 25, 2009 booking mug from Butler County jail. Mireles is being charged with capital murder in the death of Emily Sander in 2008.

A man suspected of killing a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model is in custody in Kansas after his extradition from Mexico.

The man accused of killing an El Dorado teenager back in November 2007 makes his first appearance in court.

EL DORADO, KAN.: A man suspected of killing a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model is in custody in Kansas after his extradition from Mexico.

Friends and family gathered Thursday in El Dorado to mourn the death of Daniel S. Persons.

Rescue workers tonight responded to reports of two near-drownings in separate incidents in Butler and Sedgwick counties.

EL DORADO a ' For years, a south-central Kansas county used minimum security inmates from a local prison to provide low-cost help for public works projects.

Emergency crews in Butler County are investigating an apparent near drowning in the 300 block of NW River Valley Rd.

Doug Kiesling has posted video of two tornadoes that touched down in Butler County Monday night.

Forget Disneyland or the Grand Canyon. More Kansas families are vacationing at the lake.

" A University of Kansas student was killed in a car accident Sunday morning. Daniel S. Persons, of Towanda, was killed when the Mercury Sable he was driving collided with a tractor trailer on U.S. 54 & Satchell Creek Road, just east of El Dorado, according to the Augusta Daily Gazette.

A path of thunderstorms producing 80-90 mph winds overturned semi-trailer trucks and downed power lines near Hutchinson and Yoder tonight, Reno County Emergency Management said.It was part of a night of thunderstorms that also produced tornadoes near El Dorado.Tim Newman, assistant director of Reno County Emergency Management, said trees blocked ...

Butler County Sheriff's Deputies responded to an accident between a semi truck and a passenger vehicle at US 54 and Satchell Creek Road, which is east of El Dorado, at about three this morning.

Tens of thousands of visitors will converge on Florence June 12-13 for Prelude to the Symphony in the Flint Hills.

He is 63-year-old David Powell , of El Dorado. He's seeking the Republican nomination in the August 2010 primary.