Whitewater News

Though they both have active medical practices, Drs. David and Natalie Sollo needed a way to explore their other passion - wine.

Joan Potter Berns, age 92, died May 16, 2009, at Newton Medical Center. She was born July 14, 1916, just outside Peabody at the same family home, Hillcrest, where her father was born.

The rivers in Butler County have receded, giving flood-weary victims in the Wagon Wheel Ranch area a chance to start mopping up.

A Whitewater woman was injured Friday morning when her car was hit by a semi. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Victoria Bitner, 24, was driving a 1993 Nissan passenger car west on Highway 196 and turning south on East Lake Road.

The Harvey County Sheriffa s Department and the Kansas State Fire Marshalla s Office are seeking information about the fire at Hilltop Convenience Store in Walton on Feb.

AT&T's announced plans for new mobile telephone towers in Clearwater, Whitewater and Newton this year.

After a Kansas town's police chief resigned recently, its city council decided to let go of the entire police department.

Hilltop Convenience Store in Walton was destroyed by a fire that ripped through the store early Saturday morning.

As Butler County investigators conducted two searches Saturday for a boy who disappeared in 1999, Sheriff Craig Murphy said detectives are preparing to present their case to a prosecutor in the next few weeks.

Crews from several fire departments in Harvey County responded to a fire early today at the Hilltop Convenience Store on U.S. 50, just outside Walton.

This story first appeared in the Jan. 23 edition of the Kansan. Drive by where Emmaus Mennonite Church used to be, and there's a sign by the road - "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the ...

"We don't know what we're going to find, if anything," says Craig Murphy. In frigid temperatures, Saturday morning, volunteers began their search.

Investigators searching for remains of an 11-year-old boy who disappeared in 1999 will look again along the Whitewater River near Towanda, Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said Tuesday.

This story first appeared in the Dec. 26 edition of the Kansan. Twins,' triplets' lives full of adventures Editor's note: The Kansan asked local twins and triplets to mail in their stories.

Dr. David Sollo and his wife, Dr Natalie Sollo, in their favorite room, the wine cellar, where they age their homemade wine.