Osborne County News

Attorney General Steve Six says Kenneth Eugene Wilson has been given the maximum sentence.

Saturday's funeral services for Osborne County firefighter Lyle Lewis, who died Tuesday after responding to a fire at a rural home southwest of Alton, provoked appropriate emotions of grief and mourning, but also of honor as the 50-year-old father of five was laid to rest.

A north Kansas firefighter has died, apparently succumbing to the heat while battling a house fire.

Northwest Kansas dodged the severe weather bullet overnight, although hail and heavy rains were reported in a few areas.

The yearly event is in celebration of Osborne County Pioneers of the Hackerott family who immigrated with their families to the United States from Isernhagen, Hanover, Germany in 1842.

Rain started falling about 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Arloa and John Shaw residence in rural Phillips County.

There's a laminated sheet of paper on a closet door in Elouise Miller's classroom, displaying an excerpt from Robert Fulghum's book, "All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." It's a teaching philosophy Miller has lived by for a lot of years.

Do elected prosecutors actually prosecute? Attorney General Steve Six sent out a news release yesterday announcing he had personally argued the murder case against an Osborne County man.

Attorney General Steve Six says Delbert McBroom was arrested this week and charged with the burglary of a rural Gove County home in March 2008.

Finding a dry eye or a voice capable of producing speech Tuesday inside the Osborne County Courthouse after Kenneth Eugene Wilson was found guilty of the March 2008 murder of Portis resident Jeffery Scott Noel was a tough task.

A Salina man has been found guilty in the 2008 slaying of a farmer in north-central Kansas.

A Salina man has been found guilty in the 2008 slaying of a farmer in north-central Kansas.

Attorney General Steve Six announced Tuesday that a jury in Osborne County found Kenneth Eugene Wilson guilty of murdering a farmer with his own gun.

By RYAN CHRISTNER rchristner@dailynews.net OSBORNE a ' Attorney General Steve Six called the prosecutiona TMs final witnesses today, resting the statea TMs case against 46-year-old Salina resident Kenneth Eugene Wilson.

Those who last saw Jeffery Scott Noel alive or were near his home around what is believed to have been the time of his murder were some of the witnesses who spoke Friday in Osborne County District Court during the trial of 45-year-old Salina resident Kenneth Eugene Wilson, who is charged in the March 2008 killing.

Jury selection begins Monday in north-central Kansas in what is considered one of the most violent crimes in Osborne County in recent memory.

The countdown to the Kenneth Wilson murder trial in Osborne County District Court has reached its final 24 hours as official proceedings are scheduled to begin Monday.

"At this time we don't feel the rumors are credible," Superintendent Keith Hall said Tuesday morning.

It's difficult to predict who will be elected to serve on the Osborne USD 392 Board of Education.

The organizers of an Osborne County historical tour agree -- stop No. 19 is their favorite on the 20-mile trip through some of the original homesteads in the county.