Eureka News

A 49-year-old Eureka man was killed late Wednesday night in a one-vehicle accident shortly before 9 p.m. on U.S. 54 in Butler County, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported.

EUREKA Advance tickets for rides at the Eureka sesquicentennial carnival will go on sale at 9 a.m. July 24 at the City Building, 128 N. Main St.; Eureka Public Library, 202 S. Main St.; and some local businesses.

Winds knocked down a section of fence as Chris Dodson's house in the 1100 block of Janice Street.

More than 100 farm animals herded into Fort Scott during a recent farm animal show for area youth, event organizers said Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Portwood, Garland, Kan., and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Thompson, of Alma, Ga., announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their children, Elizabeth Marie Portwood and James Michael Thompson.

Sedgwick County officials ask the Kansas Division of Emergency Management for 100,000 sandbags to hold back flood waters from recent storms.

A 20-year-old Yates Center man has died -- the first fatality of this week's heavy rainfall and flooding.

LAST MONTH, I wrote a column about Jim Lehrer's book "Eureka." In this work of fiction, Lehrer pulled Eureka out of its natural habitat.