Riverton News

A 10-year-old southeast Kansas boy is heading to college after speeding through high school coursework.

From staff reports news@joplinglobe.com Pupils in several area Kansas school districts achieved the Standard of Excellence on the Kansas Statewide Assessments administered last year, according to the Kansas State Department of Education.

RIVERTON, Kan. - Planning for a $12.2 million plant to process water from Spring River for public consumption is under way, but it may be a couple of years before the plant is in operation.

Children play in a Treece, Kan., street covered with lead and zinc mine tailings less than twenty yards from the Kansas/Oklahoma border behind them.

RIVERTON, Kan. - The Riverton High School FFA for the second consecutive year has been ranked as the top FFA chapter in Kansas.

Authorities are awaiting autopsy results to help determine why a man from South Carolina drowned after jumping into the Spring River.

Authorities are awaiting autopsy results to help determine why a man from South Carolina drowned after jumping into the Spring River.

Authorities are awaiting autopsy results to help determine why a man from South Carolina drowned after jumping into the Spring River.

Authorities on Sunday morning recovered the body of Christopher Robertson, 28, of Tillman, S.C., from Spring River at Riverton, said Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves.

RIVERTON, Kan. - The Kansas Department of Commerce has approved a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant for a health and wellness center in Riverton.

In reference to the Globe editorial appearing July 28, the First Amendment to the Constitution is in more jeopardy than we ever could have imagined when a newspaper editor advocates that one who picks a "verbal fight" with police should expect to be arrested.

A Memorial Benefit Dinner will be held Sunday for the Teresa & Taylor Kemp Memorial Scholarship Fund.

A collision involving a police chase in southeast Kansas last week has now taken a second life.

A Riverton, Kan., school teacher remains in critical condition at a Joplin hospital following a fatal crash that also killed her 13-year-old daughter and sent the driver of another vehicle to the hospital.

COLUMBUS, Kan. - The Cherokee County commissioners on Monday expressed disappointment that none of the planned Mother Road Marathon in the county would be on sections of the original Route 66.