Russell County News

Patches of ice on western Kansas highways led to at least three crashes that resulted in injuries or possible injuries Sunday, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported.

An inmate scheduled for release next month has been charged with sending a threatening letter to Kansas Gov.

Roll Out the Rain Barrel events will take place Saturday in Victoria and Russell.

The storm moved fast and it moved furiously, dumping heavy rain in some areas and hail elsewhere.

One person was killed and two injured in two separate Kansas crashes on Monday in which a vehicle attempted to turn in front of a passing car, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported on its online crash log.

As drought slowly creeps back into the picture for a five-county region in and around the Hays area, the formation of an El Nino off the Pacific Coast just might be a harbinger of good things to come.

In an effort to help bring food to tables around the world, farmers deal with whatever Mother Nature throws their way: drought, floods, hail, tornadoes, untimely frosts, diseases and pest infestations to name but a few.

In the single campaign to be the top eating establishment in northwest Kansas, two races evolved: one online and the other through printed ballots.

Richard E. Habbart Last Updated: June 30, 2009 Richard E. Habbart Richard E. Habbart, 62, Dorrance, died Thursday, June 25, 2009, at Russell Regional Hospital, Russell.

The students from Russell County instead took 191 books to Chapman Tuesday, and 11 of the 13 students who made the two-hour bus trip handed them over to Librarian Brenda Lemon.

School officials were a bit skeptical when Aaron Bean proposed to them last year what he wanted to tackle as his Eagle Scout project.

Lend us your forks, your spoons, your cream of the crop -- at least as far as eating establishments in northwest Kansas are concerned.

Amanda Wiley died at 3:47 a.m. Tuesday at the St. Francis campus of Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report.

Russell Townsley, former publisher of the Russell Daily News, was honored by the Kansas Press Association last weekend as the historical inductee to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame.