Viola News

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.

WICHITA a ' The trial has started for a man accused of holding a Wichita-area convenience store clerk captive for three days while he raped and sodomized her.

Robert Abner sits in Judge David Kaufman's courtroom during the second day of his trial in Sedgwick County District Court.

It is an unusual case that drew wide media attention: In June 2008, according to authorities and testimony at a preliminary hearing, an armed robber abducted Joyce Patterson, then 48, from the Viola convenience store where she worked as a clerk.

This bald eagle at Eagle Valley Raptor Center is being rehabilitated. He ate an animal that was killed with lead shot.

Authorities have closed K-42 between 247th Street West and 263rd Street West because of a two-vehicle crash that killed one person.

A woman is killed in a deadly accident near Viola Thursday afternoon. Sedgwick County dispatchers received a call about the crash from a Harper County EMS unit around 2:40 p.m. The Kansas Highway Patrol worked ...

Jessa DeMars and Jonathan Youngers were married Aug. 9 in Dutton, with the Rev. Michael Poole officiating.