Larned News

Efforts are continuing to keep the St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Larned from closing.

HUTCHINSON a ' Investigators say they have not been able to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed a laundry building at Larned State Hospital last month.

The cities of Ellinwood and Larned will celebrate July 4 with rockets' red glare.

The PCCHO had hoped for a reasonable period of time, an extension past Sept. 30, on the closing decision.

A fire destroyed the laundry building at the Larned State Hospital but few other details are being released.

A committee has formed to try and keep St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Larned open.

The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of Kimberly Danielle Sharp, one of four people convicted three years ago in the death of a Topeka advocate for the homeless, and Wallace Dixon III, for his involvement in an Emporia apartment explosion that killed a woman and her infant son eight years ago.

The Central Kansas Medical Center and St. Joseph Memorial Hospital Board of Directors announced Wednesday that St.

Larned will be losing about 90 jobs on Sept. 30 when St. Joseph Memorial Hospital and its long-term care unit close.

WHEN RICK, a former grade-school classmate, found me via the Internet last summer, he suggested that we locate the others and have a class reunion.

Larned residents recently planted a community garden, and a similar project is in the works for Barton County, said Christy Tustin at the Golden Belt Community Foundation.

A Garden City woman died Tuesday morning at the scene of a two-vehicle accident in Pawnee County, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Authorities in charge of the youth inmates in Kansas have geared up for the possibility of a H1N1 flu outbreak at juvenile correctional facilities.

A preliminary hearing in the case of a 17-year-old Garden City boy accused of murdering a 16-year-old Deerfield girl has been continued, and further mental health evaluations ordered, following a hearing at the Finney County District Courthouse this morning.

A split decision led to the Barton County Commission approving another year's support for lobbying efforts to keep state funding coming to Larned State Hospital, though the county approved less funding than in previous years.

While presentations of scholarly work and artistic performances occur year-round at Fort Hays State University, April 20 to 25 offers a special celebration -- the fifth annual FHSU Research and Creative Activities Week.

The sentencing of a female school paraprofessional convicted of having sex with an underage boy has been postponed so she can undergo a mental examination at the Larned State Security Hospital.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Drew Brown, 20, of Larned, was driving a 2000 Ford Taurus west on Kansas Highway 4 about half a mile west of Lindsborg shortly after 1 a.m. when the car went into the south ditch and struck a power pole.

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.

A sense of urgency persists among Honor Flight organizers in central Kansas, who are looking to give World War II veterans some payback.