Butler County News

Core-aerate warm-season lawns - Warm-season turfgrasses Bermuda and zoysia should be core-aerated now when they're in the best position to recover, says Ward Upham of K- State.

Zoey Zane was leading a double life. On the net, she was Zoey Zane, the porn star.

Terradyne resident Jeff Karst practices on the the new driving range at the Terradyne Country Club on Tuesday, June 23, 2009.

The man accused of killing an El Dorado teenager back in November 2007 makes his first appearance in court.

Israel Guadalupe Mireles, who is charged in the 2007 killing of Emily Sander, made his first appearance in Butler County District Court in El Dorado this morning.A judge ordered that he be held under a $3 million bond in the death of Sander, an 18-year-old Butler Community College student, who had been missing for several days before a search team ...

Doug Kiesling has posted video of two tornadoes that touched down in Butler County Monday night.

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.

A combination of a lightning strike and high winds dropped two large limbs from a maple tree on a chain link fish in west-central Newton.

For years, a south-central Kansas county used minimum security inmates from a local prison to provide low-cost help for public works projects.

" 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 a statement from the Butler County Sheriff's Office.

The state took away Butler County's convict laborers, so the county is setting up a bus line to bring them back.

A path of thunderstorms producing 80-90 mph winds overturned semi-trailer trucks and downed power lines near Hutchinson and Yoder tonight, Reno County Emergency Management said.It was part of a night of thunderstorms that also produced tornadoes near El Dorado.Tim Newman, assistant director of Reno County Emergency Management, said trees blocked ...

Butler County Sheriff's Deputies responded to an accident between a semi truck and a passenger vehicle at US 54 and Satchell Creek Road, which is east of El Dorado, at about three this morning.

Thousands of dollars in missing money and now the KBI is investigating what happened in the town of Leon.

Tens of thousands of visitors will converge on Florence June 12-13 for Prelude to the Symphony in the Flint Hills.

Kansas summers are a time for exploring. It can be a time for whimsical trips or journeys with purposeful planning.

During a month when workers at the Butler County Community College registration office typically have a little downtime, things are bustling.