Oskaloosa News

Many people found their homes in Kansas as a part of the Orphan Train program run by the Children's Aid Society and the New York Foundling Hospital from 1854 to 1929.

An appeals court Friday overturned a ruling that an Oskaloosa man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife's 14-year-old sister in 1999 didn't receive a fair trial.

Oskaloosa - Jefferson County was experiencing an outage in its 911 land lines Monday night.

Authorities in Jefferson County arrested the fourth suspect in a case where a man's leg was nearly severed and he was left for dead on a rural road in Saline County.

The Department of English at the University of Kansas recognized about 70 undergraduate and graduate students May 3 with more than $26,000 in awards and scholarships for outstanding academic performance, writing and teaching.

The boyhood home of Statehouse muralist John Steuart Curry at Old Jefferson Town in Oskaloosa contains Curry family memorabilia.

Stebbins and Jay Wagner of Oskaloosa are accused of defrauding the owners of J Bar Ranch between 2003 and 2008.

TOPEKA , Kan. - Meals on Wheels of Shawnee and Jefferson Counties hosted Mayors for Meals Day as part of their March for Meals campaign March 18 and 19.

Sunday night was the Lawrence St. Patrick's Day Queen Coronation where Taylor King, Oskaloosa junior, competed against six other women and was announced the 2009 queen.

Dave Bruns leads a bit of a double life. By day, he's a special education teacher at Perry-Lecompton High School; by night, he's a well-known area musician.

The Jefferson County Sheriffa s office has a notebook holding more than 50 reports of recent mail thefts across Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri .

In another indication of the rough economy, law enforcement authorities in Kansas and Missouri are warning residents that mail theft is increasing, particularly of mail containing checks and credit cards.

A Jefferson County Commissioner resigned Thursday with no notice and no reason given, leaving only an extremely brief letter of resignation.

Shawnee County Commissioners today voted 3-0 to award the second-lowest bidder, Topeka-based Schmidtlein Excavating Inc., the contract for a project to improve S.W. Wanamaker Road between S.W. 41st and 47th ...

The school board will meet at 7 p.m. today. Rossville Grade School fifth graders will see the Topeka Symphony on Thursday.

With the country reeling from a recession and grain and livestock prices falling, farmers are being cautioned to plan carefully in 2009.

Twenty years ago today, I showed up for my first day of work as Bill James ' research assistant.

A Topeka health care facility is giving a boost to area programs. The Saint Francis Health Center Mission Fund awarded nearly $100,000 in grants Friday to a dozen Topeka-area agencies.