Ottawa County News

The 2002 pickup, valued at $9,200, belonging to Jeff C. Oppliger, of Garden City, was reported stolen between Oct.

The $15,000 contract with John Paul Wright, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati, is being funded out of reimbursement fees paid by offenders being supervised by Community Corrections, director Annie Grevas said.

Ottawa County prosecutors are charging a 39-year-old man with assaulting a police officer and with domestic abuse and assault and battery.

A document indicating Taiwan's desire to purchase more than 62 million bushels of Kansas hard red winter wheat was to be signed Friday by state officials and members of a Taiwanese trade delegation.

One person is killed and two others are hurt in a single-vehicle crash in rural Ottawa County Sunday night.

Saline County commissioners Tuesday approved a resolution designating the county as a recovery zone, making government entities eligible to receive federal stimulus money to lower the cost of borrowing for projects.

Bids for state highway and construction maintenance projects for Ellsworth, Lincoln, Ottawa and Rooks counties have been accepted by the Kansas Department of Transportation.

Sherrie Mahoney has been the face and voice of nutrition for Saline County since 1980, fielding all manner of questions about food preparation and safety for a generation of home chefs, but come Thursday, she'll be managing only her own kitchen.

A crash involving a pickup truck and a semitrailer carrying chicken feed closed the northbound lanes of Kansas Highway 81 in Ottawa County for several hours Wednesday.

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series that looks closer at extension districts, what they are and how they work.

A crash in rural Ottawa County sends two people from Bennington to the hospital in Salina.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol report says the inattention of the driver of a tractor-trailer led to a wreck on the Will Rogers Turnpike that killed 10 people.

Allison D. Jones was injured when the car driven by Joshua R. Anderson, 19, of Great Bend, left the road while heading west at 7:55 a.m. about 1 1/2 miles west of the intersection of the two highways, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report.

Two Bennington women were injured Friday during a rollover south of Kansas Highway 18 in Ottawa County during a severe thunderstorm in the area.

Eglet said her brother, Christopher Lyons, 21, had moved from Grand Junction to Concordia with his girlfriend and daughter last September.

Troopers say the truck left the west side of roadway and rolled. A Bennington woman is hurt in a one-vehicle crash in rural Ottawa County that happened as severe weather was rolling through.

The accident happened at around 3:00 Sunday morning along K-18 Highway, about halfway between Tescott and Beverly.

The leading edge of the storms move north of Salina Friday night. photo by Todd Pittenger Mother Nature supplied some fireworks of her own Friday night in the Salina area, in the form of intense lightning and a brief tornado.

Based on what she can see, Joan Pool would call this a good wheat harvest. The Phillips Seed Farms office manager in Tescott has watched the company's grain elevator overfill with the crop that has far exceeded predictions in north-central Kansas.

People who get arrested won't have to wait a week to appear before a judge, but for many others, the wheels of justice may grind a little more slowly come January.