Larned News

Published online 11/6/2009 10:09 PM DA wants to call back jury in sex case By Darcy Gray - The Hutchinson News - dgray@hutchnews.com Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder wants to recall jurors who heard a child sex abuse case last year so they can determine whether the defendant - who the jury convicted - was at least 18 years old when the ...

Antonio Mosqueda was sentenced on Thursday to 9 years and 9 months in jail for the murder of Jose Luis Villanueva.

Local sixth-graders crowd around an exhibit featuring a pig's lungs at Central Kansas Medical Center's Health Smarts health fair Wednesday afternoon.

Pictured is the former Great Bend Packing facility south of Great Bend. City and county leaders approved Monday an incentive package to lure Redbarn Pet Products to take over the plant.

The 45-day stay in the lawsuit over the closure of St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Larned expired Friday and, as far as Larned residents know, not much has happened.

Editor's note: The murders of the Clutter family, 50 years ago this month, garnered nationwide headlines and caught the interest of author Truman Capote.

IT WAS AKIN to being told I was adopted. I learned one little bit of information and was forced to rethink my entire childhood.

Fort Larned is shown as it looks today. Since 1964, it's been a National Historic Site, the first one named in Kansas.

Troy and Tina Werner, of Nevada, announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Traci Werner, to Cole Vap, son of Jeff and Jan Vap, La Crosse, Kan.

The following were taken from law enforcement logs: Friday Elsi Reyes, 17, 2203 Reiff Road, Apt.

On October 10, a special candlelight tour through time will be held as part of the 150th anniversary of Fort Larned.

A man running a stop sign causes a deadly crash this weekend. Kansas Highway Patrol says the accident happened on a Pawnee County road early Saturday evening.

Great Bend Fire Department personnel respond to a shooting in the 2300 block of 12th Street Thursday night.

In the field of white headstones, Janice Seymour sat in a folding chair, her small hands dressed in white lace gloves, feeling equally happy and yet disbelieving at what she was watching.For eight years she worked toward this moment.

Retired Col. Sam Young plays Taps during the ceremony. A memorial honoring soldiers who died serving their country at Fort Larned, Kan., between 1859 to 1878 and re-interred at Fort Leavenworth, was dedicated at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery Saturday, Sept.

The Army closed Fort Larned and transferred the remains in 1888, a standard practice when posts were abandoned.

A Great Bend man has been formally charged for allegedly possessing explosives in his vehicle on Highway K-156 Tuesday.

A traffic stop on Kansas 156 resulted in the arrest of a man who allegedly had two explosive devices in his car.Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Sgt.

Erin Rosechell Pentz of Macksville and Tyler Scott Miesse of Marion were married May 9 in Lemon Park, Pratt, in an evening ceremony, with the Rev.

A Pawnee County District Court judge let stand Friday a temporary restraining order delaying the Sept.