Harper County News

A 123-year-old Harper County bank, with a branch in west Wichita, failed Friday and will reopen as a branch of South Hutchinson-based SNB Bank of Kansas.

A tornado struck a house three miles west of Maple City early this morning, according to Cowley County emergency management coordinator Brian Stone.

As friends worked to cut away a 65-foot-plus tall cottonwood crushing his home, John Barker expressed amazement at his fortune - both good and bad.

Severe storms, including several tornadoes hit the state in the last 24 hours. Now, crews are starting to assess the damage left behind.

Today's morning commute in the Wichita metropolitan area is likely to cloaked in a hard rain punctuated with thunder and lightning, forecasters say.

A man is air-lifted to a Wichita hospital after a farming accident in Harper County.

Casting wary eyes on the sky and the radar, Butler County officials scrambled Thursday to prepare for possible flooding.

More rain. Possibly more flooding. It wona t cease until next week. Those are the thoughts of the National Weather Service in Topeka where meteorologist Scott Whitmore said much of eastern Kansas along and south of Interstate 70 will be affected by a flash flood watch going into effect at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

The Adjutant General's Department said in a news release Friday that Sedgwick County has requested 100,000 sandbacks to hold back floodwaters.

The Kansas Division of Emergency Management has received requests for approximately 106,000 sandbags from two south central Kansas counties.

With a large part of Kansas still saturated from a round of heavy rain, more storms are developing and heading east.

Until now. "It was absolutely terrifying," she said. "I'd never been in a situation like that before, so I didn't know what to do." Beason and her 15-year-old daughter, Jordan, were the beneficiaries of one of three car rescues that Harper County firefighters carried out Sunday night and early Monday morning, as 6.5 inches of rain fell here in a ...

Heavy rain has led to flooding conditions at the hospital in Harper. The administrator at Hospital District No.

This small south-central Kansas town of 2,200 residents is taking on a task of Hollywood proportions _ raising $1.2 million to restore its Main Street theater to its former movie palace grandeur.

BarBara Wright and Lyle Wellbrook are both members of the committee seeking to restore the Anthony Theatre.

The commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Broberg to another four-year term.

Seven tornadoes were reported in Kansas Saturday night, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center.

The first confirmed tornado came at 4'12 Saturday afternoon when a twister was spotted near the town of Partridge in Reno County.

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 ...

Alex Lies picks up trash in southeast Wichita Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. David Lies, Alex's father and vice president of Lies Trash Service, said as the economy gets tighter he is getting new customers from people ...