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Brad Nading/Telegram Julie Nemechek works on angles and triangle shapes Friday with sixth graders in a math class at Holcomb Middle School.

Rosie Cutrer, an award-winning storyteller with the Kansas Arts Commission, presents her "Books Alive" presentation Tuesday as she tells her version of "Rumpelstiltskin" to students at Plymell School.

They gathered in Stevens Park on Saturday morning taking turns stringing lights on trees, climbing on ladders and using poles to reach high branches.

In author Truman Capote's words, residents at the murder trial of Richard Hickock and Perry Edward Smith couldn't believe that Don Cullivan -- a staid Catholic, successful engineer and father of three -- would travel 1,900 miles from Boston to stand on the side of an accused murderer.

The following is one of the original stories published in The Telegram on Nov. 16, 1959, of which the front page is displayed to the left, the day after the bodies of Herb, Bonnie, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter were found in their Holcomb home: A tragedy -- unbelievable and shocking beyond words -- struck a prominent Western Kansas farm family near here ...

The make-up of the Holcomb City Council has one again changed, this time bringing the six-member board to full capacity.

Published online 11/6/2009 7:37 AM Morning Blend: News from around the state Compiled by Edie Ross - The Hutchinson News - eross@hutchnews.com High School teacher charged with felony theft The Garden City Telegram A Spanish teacher at Garden City High School has been charged with three counts of felony theft for allegedly stealing three IBM ...

In this Jan. 6, 1960 file photo, Perry Edward Smith is led by police officers into the courthouse at Garden City, Kan.

An Amarillo man was arrested Monday evening by Kansas authorities in connection to a drive-by shooting outside a Garden City, Kan., bar over the weekend.

GARDEN CITY, Ks. a ' Police say when a teacher called for help after being stabbed in the leg, beaten and robbed in his classroom was made up.

A teacher who said he was stabbed in the leg, beaten and robbed in his classroom is being accused of making up the story.

By The Telegram The Garden City Community College men's basketball team opened the season on the right foot Monday with a 76-68 win against McCook .

A Garden City teenager accused of rape and murder will stand trial. A judge has ruled that Joaquin De Anda, 18, is competent to stand trial after hearing from doctors and mental health officials.

Published online 11/2/2009 10:36 PM Police arrest one man, seek another in shooting By The News staff GARDEN CITY - Police have arrested one man and continue to search for a second in connection with a drive-by shooting Sunday afternoon outside a local bar.

Published online 10/31/2009 10:43 PM Man to be tried in girl's slaying A Garden City man accused of raping, sodomizing and murdering a Deerfield girl has been declared competent to stand trial.

Vampires, fairy princesses, witches, angels and mummies walked the halls of Edith Scheuerman Elementary School on Friday afternoon.

An update about construction of the new high school and early childhood center, along with a report about the Bilingual Teachers of Tomorrow program are on Monday night's USD 457 Board of Education agenda.

Officials from three southwest Kansas cities have drafted a legislative policy and plan to return to their respective governing bodies to adopt the agenda that outlines their goals for this corner of the state.

GARDEN CITY, Kan. - Typically, some late-maturing soybean fields suffer from freeze damage in the fall, but more soybean acres than normal have been affected this year in western Kansas, according to Kent Martin, crops and soils specialist with Kansas State Universitys Southwest Area Extension Office.

United Way campaigners have raised $167,335.54, or 30 percent, of their $550,000 goal so far in their 2010 annual fundraising campaign.