Oakley News

Sister Bernadine Wessel, A.S.C., Mason, Korea, formerly of Angelus, professed her vows July 1, 1959, in Wichita.

Volunteers working on the Southwest Nebraska Habitat for Humanity on behalf of the Anders family received a welcome surprise and willing hands to help with Saturday's labors.

Willie and Jean Heier, Grinnell, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary June 13, 2009, with an open house and reception hosted by their daughters from 2 to 4 p.m. at American Legion Hall, Grainfield.

Chris Rodgers came to see what had been served up only as a model at Exploration Place in Wichita.

Jack and Ann Ostmeyer, Oakley, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary May 29, 2009.

Douglas and Julia Brenner, Oakley, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Jessica Ren'ee Brenner, to Christopher Ross Halbleib, son of Thomas and Heliana Halbleib, Oakley.

Michael J. Murphy, 33, Oakley, and Ryan L. Murphy, 21, Colby, were taken to Citizena TMs Medical Center.

The shelves that line the walls in Ted Howard's shop outside Oakley remain filled, the result of a sour economy.

An accident in Gove County on Thursday left three Grinnell residents with possible injuries, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.

Shawnee County commissioners Monday will consider placing streetlights at the site of two future roundabouts on N.W. 46th Street.

Two people were killed in a head-on collision Saturday at the Smoky Hill River Bridge about 10 miles south of Hays.

The Carnivore Preservation Trust announced today that next week they will rescue two male tigers from an owner near Oakley, Kansas.

Normally, the trip from the northern Illinois Four Wheeler Midwest Bureau to the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab is a pretty standard affair.

Shawnee County officials are eagerly awaiting news early this afternoon of whether an improvement of N.W. 46th Street, east of US-75, will receive federal stimulus money.

Three lions from an animal refuge in western Kansas, including one that mauled a man, are expected to arrive at their new Detroit Zoo home around the end of the month.

Three lions once kept inside a junkyard-like enclosure -- surrounded by old cars and decaying cow skulls next to a motel in Kansas -- are getting a new lease on life at the Detroit Zoo.

A teenage driver and her passenger were injured when their car overturned Sunday in Thomas County.

The lion's owner, Jeffrey Harsh, told authorities that man staying at the Free Breakfast Inn motel next to the refuge near Oakley apparently made his way Saturday into an outer perimeter lion cage.

The portion of the Topeka metro area east of S.W. Topeka Boulevard is home to two of the community's six public high schools, both of its airports and a large chunk of its population.

An Oakley woman was injured when her sport utility vehicle overturned after she lost control while driving on a county road.