Garden City News

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.

United Way campaigners have raised $153,748.54 -- or 28 percent -- of their $550,000 goal so far for the 2010 annual fundraising campaign.

City commissioners have denied a local property owner's rezoning request to build multi-family housing in a Garden City neighborhood, following debate among residents, the landowner, and members of the local governing body.

The dark colors in William Shanks' painting convey the dismal disposition of his subject, someone who is dissatisfied as he looks back on his life and realizes what he has become.

A 48-year-old southwest Kansas woman has died from complications of the H1N1 flu virus, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported Friday.

The case of a USD 457 teacher who was arrested on allegations that she stole three school laptops has been referred back to the Garden City Police Department.

Garden City Community College trustees reviewed the distribution of student activity fees and extended the paramedic program during their meeting on Wednesday night.