Labette County News

Justice Concepts Inc., a consultant that missed its deadline to reduce the Sedgwick County Jail's population by 25 percent, will receive additional money for work it says it did outside its contract.

A man who authorities say had crack cocaine and marijuana in his home will spend 14 years behind bars for drug trafficking.

The first Southeast Kansas Cattlemen's Conference is planned for Saturday at the Oswego Community Center next to the Labette County Fairgrounds.

New numbers are out in Kansas about birth rates for teenagers. Nearly 30% of pregnancies in Kansas are teen pregnancies.

While Fort Scott and Uniontown will remain in their classes for this school year, both Jayhawk-Linn and Pleasanton will each drop one classification after the Kansas State High School Activities Association released 2009-10 assignments Tuesday.

Argument ends in fatal shootingA young man died Sunday night after he was shot while arguing with two men at Cherry Street and Armour Boulevard.People living in the area said they heard a dispute and then a single gunshot.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. a ' A sex offender who escaped Saturday from the Hutchison Correctional Facility has been captured.

Prison officials say it appears a Hutchinson Correctional Facility inmate convicted of child sex crimes used ladders to help him escape Saturday.

A 6-year-old Southeast Kansas child has died from swine flu, state health officials said Wednesday.

An 83-year-old southeast Kansas man is dead after being run over by a tractor at farm near Edna.

An 83-year-old rural Edna, Kan., man is dead after a farming accident, the Labette County Sheriff's Department said this morning.

A Parsons, Kan., man died in the wake of a motorcycle accident at 2:12 a.m. Sunday on Ness Road, between Parsons and Altamont in Labette County, Kan.

Paola FFA members Johanna Ryckert and Nathan Laudan recently traveled to Junction City for the Kansas FFA District Officer Conference held at Rock Springs Ranch.

COLUMBUS, Kan. - New charges filed against former assistant Cherokee County Attorney Jeffrey Pittman allege that he schemed with two others to deliver methamphetamine to him in jail.

Cases of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus have been confirmed in Thomas County adults, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Wednesday.

Italy a s Euramerica Energy Inc. has farmed into the Thayer and Mound Valley projects in the Cherokee Basin of Kansas from Admiral Bay Resources Inc.

Miami and Crawford counties are the latest to have confirmed cases of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

PITTSBURG, Kan. - An adult who has Crawford County's first confirmed case of swine flu was recovering Wednesday at home, said Janis Goedeke, health officer for the Crawford County Health Department.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed a case of swine flu in an adult in Crawford County.

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