Sedgwick News

Kansas Medical Center in Andover has signed a contract with Preferred Health Systems, making the medical center part of the PHS network.

In 35 years of farming, Scott Van Allen has never planted so much wheat this late in the fall.

Sixth grader Lucas Theoharidis took first place in the Sedgwick Elementary Nature Trail race on Thursday, October 22.

Sedgwick Country Sheriff Deputy Narciso Narvais explains TASER manufacturer's new target area guidelines.

A series of collisions involving five vehicles - one of them a semi-trailer truck - has shut down westbound Kellogg near the Sedgwick/Butler county line this afternoon.

The Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents of Sedgwick and Butler County of a potential indoor air problem involving carbon dioxide and methane.

Do we really want to live in San Diego? I know we always say, "It can stay like this every day," but after endless temperate, moderate, mild weather, during which we've hardly had to water, or wear deodorant, or crank up the AC, I feel like I'm losing my grounding, my pace, my sense of identity.

Radar and ground reports indicate 3 to 6 inches of rain have fallen over northern Cowley, eastern Sedgwick and southern Butler counties, the National Weather Service said this morning.

Ah, finallythe start of the 2009 cross country season. Things were kicked off tonight with the Clearwater Invitational, which featured plenty of different races: Open races for the boys and the girls and then 2-mile races for Senior/Junior and Sophomore/Freshman divisions.

Less than 50 miles separate Kansas State University's experiment fields near Hesston and Hutchinson.

Maybe Sedgwick Countya s faith in Justice Concepts Inc. will have been justified in the long run, by getting the jail population numbers under control.

"Public safety is a top priority for my administration, which is why during the last round of budget cuts our Department of Corrections was spared.

"Public safety is a top priority for my administration, which is why during the last round of budget cuts our Department of Corrections was spared.

"Public safety is a top priority for my administration, which is why during the last round of budget cuts our Department of Corrections was spared.

The Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick Countya s pitch to the Sedgwick County Commission for $120,000 proved unsuccessful last week.

State and local public safety programs have been hit hard by declining revenues and the national recession; but thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Kansas remains safe and secure as more than 1,000 public safety jobs are protected.

Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. A small biodiesel refinery in Sedgwick, Kan., Healy Biodiesel Inc., has signed a letter of intent with Cetane Energy LLC to license its patent-pending hydroprocessed renewable diesel technology.

Local insurance companies are tallying up the damage from Wednesday nighta s hail storm.

One person was critically injured and two others seriously injured in an accident on Kellogg on the Sedgwick/Butler county line just before 8 p.m. today, Sedgwick County dispatchers said.

Chris Ewertz from the Andale co-op in Valley Center opens a truckload of grain to go into the silo through a grate in the floor.