Russell News

Topeka Fire Marshal Greg Bailey's message to a reporter two months ago has so far proven prophetic.

Want to incite an online riot? Come up with a list of the sites that Hays Daily News staffers think just might be the top 40 places to eat in northwest Kansas.

One could say Glenn Schmidtberger always had wine in his veins. With grandparents and other extended family who would make the popular alcoholic beverage for their personal consumption, the Victoria native can be considered the latest in a long line of winemakers.

The arrest of a convicted arsonist Tuesday could help cut the number of deliberately set fires stoking the fears of residents in Topeka's midtown area, fire officials said.

Some questions and answers from a New York Times Magazine interview with Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., in which he also expressed support for Sen.

I hear you're giving me 10 minutes for this interview, which is some kind of record for shortness.

Amanda Wiley died at 3:47 a.m. Tuesday at the St. Francis campus of Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report.

HUTCHINSON a ' Several western Kansas counties have agreed to join Shawnee County in a planned lawsuit against the state to collect underpayments of highway funds.

According to Sen. Arlen Specter's official Web site, the moderate Republican owes a great deal of gratitude to his boyhood home of Russell, Kan.

Bob and Elizabeth Dole say they'll talk about the importance of young people becoming involved in public service this weekend.

Russell Townsley, former publisher of the Russell Daily News, was honored by the Kansas Press Association last weekend as the historical inductee to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame.

After four decades in public life, Arlen Specter is still as brash, complicated and unpredictable as ever.

Crews from more than a half dozen fire departments are fighting a blaze just outside of Russell this morning.

A woman who accidentally left a ring in a canister of change she donated toward purchase of a new Saline County Sheriff's Office dog was reunited with her jewelry Tuesday morning.

Sens. Bob and Elizabeth Dole will give a rare joint interview as part of the "2009 Dole Lecture: Unlimited Partners" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at the Lied Center at the University of Kansas.

A "very large" grass fire breaks out near the Lincoln and Russell County line Friday afternoon.

This Saturday's show will end with a phone conversation with a randomly-picked-from-the-phone-book resident of Russell, Kan.

Don't expect a city official to complain about a county sales tax hike proposal in Kansas.

Kansas oil and gas production jumped almost 10 percent in 2008 following record-high crude oil and natural gas prices last summer, according to estimates from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas.

The Dream Theatre in downtown Russell is installing a digital projection system with 3-D capabilities.