Towanda News

FEMA has approved $17.8 million for tornado safe rooms in Kansas. Thirteen communities will get the total of 30 rooms, which are built to withstand 290 mile-per-hour winds.

Five agritourism businesspersons - including a Newtonian and a Towandan - have been appointed to the state Agritourism Advisory Council, officials announced Monday.

Mums were very beautiful......always a sign of Autumn. Location: Botanica Wichita Date: Sept.

An 18-year-old El Dorado woman is in critical condition today after she was injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in Butler County.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a possible mobile home explosion in the 600 block of Mills Drive in Towanda.

The state fire marshal's office has been called in to investigate a Sunday night house explosion in Towanda that left a 38-year-old man with critical injuries.

A man remains in critical condition after being burned in a mobile home fire. The victim is in his late 30s.

Friends and family gathered Thursday in El Dorado to mourn the death of Daniel S. Persons.

Rescue workers tonight responded to reports of two near-drownings in separate incidents in Butler and Sedgwick counties.

Officials say a group of people were fishing and riding horses at the pond north of Towanda when the victim fell into the pond.

A Wichita man has died after falling into a recreational pond in Butler County. The Butler County sheriff's office said Jamie Martinez, 48, fell into the pond Friday night as a group of people were fishing and horseback riding north of Towanda.

A man drowns in a pond near Towanda. Now, emergency crews try to figure out just what happened.

Emergency crews in Butler County are investigating an apparent near drowning in the 300 block of NW River Valley Rd.

Daniel S. Persons, Towanda freshman, died in a car accident Sunday near El Dorado.

" A University of Kansas student was killed in a car accident Sunday morning. Daniel S. Persons, of Towanda, was killed when the Mercury Sable he was driving collided with a tractor trailer on U.S. 54 & Satchell Creek Road, just east of El Dorado, according to the Augusta Daily Gazette.

Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy has released the names of the drivers involved in the fatal accident early Sunday morning on U.S. 54, near Satchell Creek Road between El Dorado and Rosalia.

Light drizzle fell as groups of neon-clad bicyclists pedaled their way down Main Street in Towanda on Wednesday morning.

William Davis William E. Davis, 85, an electronics foreman, died Sunday, May 24, at his home in Marion.

The big deal about this year's Jester Awards, says ceremony co-host Wayne Bryan, is that the top actor and actress will go on to national competition in New York in June.

Heavy thunderstorms moved through the state overnight and early Friday morning. Thousands of Westar Energy customers lost power in the storms.