Pawnee County News

Jerry Ford was stunned when he heard of plans to shut the doors on this town's hospital and long-term-care unit.

The 2009 wheat harvest is more than 50 percent complete for most of Barton and Pawnee counties, according to reports from area grain elevators.

The PCCHO had hoped for a reasonable period of time, an extension past Sept. 30, on the closing decision.

A committee has formed to try and keep St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Larned open.

The Central Kansas Medical Center and St. Joseph Memorial Hospital Board of Directors announced Wednesday that St.

Larned residents recently planted a community garden, and a similar project is in the works for Barton County, said Christy Tustin at the Golden Belt Community Foundation.

A Garden City woman died Tuesday morning at the scene of a two-vehicle accident in Pawnee County, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.

April 26, 1951: Kansas State University President James McCain told 1,500 students at an honors convocation that Kansas universities should adhere to rigid moral principles.

Rob Balsters divides school districts into two basic groups -- the education side and the support side.

A split decision led to the Barton County Commission approving another year's support for lobbying efforts to keep state funding coming to Larned State Hospital, though the county approved less funding than in previous years.

A 38-year-old south-central Kansas man has been charged in connection with making a threat against former President George W. Bush.Eric W. Bradley, of Newton, has been charged with one count of making a threat against a former president.According to the indictment, Newton threatened on March 20 to injure and kill Bush.He has been accused of telling ...

Today, raising livestock on a farm or ranch is a dynamic, specialized profession that has proven one of the most successful in the world.

Twenty-six-year-old Daniel T. Cook entered the plea to one count of second-degree murder during a preliminary hearing Tuesday.

A former patient at the Larned State Hospital pleads innocent to intentionally killing another patient in 2007.

Daniel T. Cook is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 46-year-old Duane Mondaine.

On Monday, Heidi Roddey, of rural Larned, reported two 3 1/2-month-old female standard poodle puppies had been missing since Sunday.

IT WAS LIKE entering a house of worship. Silence and reverence were expected. What was not expected in that house of hush was a slap-slap, slap-slap, louder than the sound of someone snapping gum.

Law enforcement officers executed two search warrants in Great Bend on Wednesday, discovering what appears to be a clandestine methamphetamine lab.

A Great Bend woman died Sunday morning in a two-car head-on crash a short distance west of Larned.

A Great Bend woman has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for helping a convicted child molester escape from the Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned State Hospital.