Viola News

A 50-year-old Viola woman is in the hospital after a violent crash in western Sedgwick County Saturday evening.

Two people were injured in a rollover accident involving two vehicles at 327th Street West and 23rd Street South in Western Sedgwick County Saturday evening.

A Sedgwick County couple's dream home burns to the ground. The fire started Wednesday afternoon in south west Sedgwick County near Lake Afton.

A man is in critical condition after an accident in Sedgwick County, near Viola.

A man is in critical condition after an accident in Sedgwick County, near Viola.

Robert Abner, along with his public defender Lacy Gilmour, listens to Judge David Kaufman during his sentencing Friday.

A man is in critical condition after an accident in Sedgwick County, near Viola.

The county puts a pipe in a pond and buys a pump -- and saves some Sedgwick County residents hundreds of dollars.

Robyn Pauly and Charles Marshall announce their engagement and coming wedding. The bride-to-be is from Lenexa, Kan., and the daughter of Alan and Connie Pauly of Viola, Kan., and granddaughter of John and Zelma Pauly of Conway Springs, Kan.

Sedgwick County jurors deliberated less than two hours before finding Robert Abner guilty of six counts of rape, two counts of aggravated sodomy, aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping.

"She was on a mission" Last year, a man named Robert Abner kidnapped a convenience-store clerk near Viola, Kan., and sexually assaulted her over the course of four days -- until, moved by her family's pleas on TV, he released her.

Robert Abner is taken out of the courtroom after he was found guilty on all 10 counts for robbing, kidnapping and sexually assaulting Joyce Patterson last summer.

A jury will soon decide the fate of Robert Abner. Abner is accused of kidnapping a Viola convenience store clerk from where she worked last summer.