Lakin News

Lakin band Independent Follows turned up the decibels in Stevens Park Sunday night with some old and new rock and roll.

This is day seven 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.

KEARNY COUNTY a ' It usually takes about two weeks from the time Kearny County farmer Gary Millershaski starts seeing coloring in the fields to the time the wheat is ripe and ready to cut.

The new lion cubs now nearing 4 months old at Lee Richardson Zoo have been named through the suggestions of cub fans from all over southwest Kansas: Dinari, Kamaia and Kianga.

Father, young girl have a tight bond as they cope with death of wife, mother. By Kathy Hanks - The Hutchinson News - khanks@hutchnews.com Emily Hughes, 4, left, and her father, David, pray before they eat at their home in Lakin.

With just a few weeks before combines would roll through a good stand of winter wheat, Tom White awoke in the middle of the night to every farmer's nightmare - hail pounding on his roof.

Any listing of the places that have inspired artists through the years will probably include the likes of Paris, Venice, the South Pacific, Provence.

Sixth-graders Junior Arreola, Jace Bemis and Ian Shelden sat on the floor of Home Depot Tuesday morning with a packet of papers, a pencil and a calculator in their hands.

School teachers know there's a fine line between learning in the classroom and applying it to the real world.

LAKIN a ' Rex Grothusen's concerns extend beyond party lines a ' Republican or Democrat, right-winger or left-winger. Stephanie Farley/Telegram a ' Participants of Wednesday's TEA Party wave to passersby along the highway.

Should police be able to pull over motorists for not wearing seat belts? Your vote has been counted, thank you for voting.

Hundreds...maybe thousands...of Kansans are staging "TEA Party" rallies around the state protesting the federal economic stimulus package and other ways the government handles money.

A majority of House members declined to wrap their arms around a bill Friday requiring each Kansan in a vehicle to use all available seat belts and provide law enforcement officers broader authority to enforce seat belt statutes on stae roads.

And that's no April Fool's Joke. The National Weather Service is expecting as much as 5 inches of snow in portions of western Kansas - from Lakin northwest past Hays - and 2 to 4 inches are being forecast from the southwest corner up through Larned.

From siding to towing services to baby clothes to wigs, the 33rd Annual Western Kansas Broadcast Center Better Home and Living Show had something for everyone.

Spring means special events such as Mother's Day, Father's Day and graduations. Photo slideshow: Taste of Home Cooking School [if "Brad Nading/Telegram a ' Dianna Lovelady, center, and Debbie Frederick, left, both from Lakin, leaf through receipt books as they relax in recliners Thursday during a Taste of Home Cooking School at the Finney County ...

The Legislature is likely to settle at most for a commitment in Kansas law to start a new program once a financing source is identified.

Transportation Secretary Deb Miller is pushing for a stronger seat belt law, arguing that Kansas is in danger of losing $11 million in federal highway funds.

Independence Day might be more than three months away, but Scott Harris doesn't think it's too early for a refresher course on firework safety.

A scrub tech at Western Plains Regional Medical Center in Dodge City and a May 2008 graduate of Hutchinson Community College, Girk is on her second buggy.