Rice County News

Frank Evans, Dodge City, will celebrate his 80th birthday Thursday. He was born in 1929 to Ruth and Cress Evans in Dodge City, and at age 6, moved with his family to New Mexico where he graduated from Santa Fe High School.

Lyons officials are answering a call for change, dropping a measure it hoped would save the city $72,000 a year.

Sterling family coping after wind sends tree into home. By Clara Kilbourn - The Hutchinson News - ckilbourn@hutchnews.com Bob Barker, left, and his brother Terry Barker watch as part of the bedroom wall of Terrya s house is pulled down Friday afternoon.

Changes to 911 in Lyons sparks a federal lawsuit. One woman says the new system is putting her life and others in danger.

By Kim Wilhelm A burst of applause echoed from the Lyons City Council chambers Friday afternoon.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 A former Hutchinson insurance agent already convicted in several counties of bilking elderly residents has received probation in a case out of Rice County.

A lawsuit filed against the city of Lyons and the Rice County Board of Commissioners alleges they are in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act .

A Rice Co. family will soon have a brand new place to call home thanks to a group of volunteers.

City leaders in Lyons call it a change in the way you call police that'll save taxpayer dollars.

Ten days after the city of Lyons terminated its dispatch service agreement with the Rice County Communications Center, three police officers have resigned and numerous citizens' complaints are being heard.

A judge Thursday ordered a former Hutchinson insurance agent convicted in multiple counties for bilking elderly residents out of tens of thousands of dollars through phony policies to spend two months in jail for failing to pay restitution.

John Engelland and his neighbors consider their irrigated farmland some of the best in the state.

A group of central Kansas farmers is in favor of expanding Kansas 96 to a divided four-lane highway that would better accommodate oversized freight traffic and boost growth in the area.

Rice County, Kansas, 1957. My $15 purchase. My father was not happy. Vance Alexander New Sharon, Iowa 1932 Ford Coupe In 1957, Ole Irwin of Little River, Kansas, had a '32 Ford five-window coupe for sale-asking price of $15. It was a tired, farm chore car, minus its B engine.

A massive march across Kansas was nearly 74 percent complete as of Monday. Field staff for the U.S. Census Bureau is walking door-to-door in Kansas, verifying addresses in advance of the population census in 2010.

A downtown adjoining art and community center in this Rice County community of 2,500 moved closer to reality this week.

Rice Co. residents taking long way around; Reno waits to see if Cow Creek floods.

A new report shows the Midwest's Ogallala Aquifer has shrunk 9 percent overall since the advent of irrigation on the arid High Plains.

Two people were injured in a one-car accident Thursday morning on U.S. 56 about 3 1/2 miles west of Little River in Rice County.

A vehicle pursuit by a Reno County Sheriff's deputy ended with some 20 law enforcement officers from a handful of local agencies converging at a Raymond area residence early Sunday morning.