Stafford County News

The afternoon sun baked the fresh pavement of Hospital Center Boulevard on Tuesday as members from the Stafford County Board of Supervisors, MediCorp Board of Trustees and media casually chatted away.

Austin Tyler Jones, infant son of TJ Jones and Alexandria Hudson of Stafford County was born and died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at DeWitt Army Hospital.

I write to bring attention to the sterling leadership shown by one of our Stafford County supervisors.

A Stafford man accused of robbing a Wawa on Garrisonville Road faced a jury trial last week.

Colonial Forge High School's first-ever forensics coach was killed in a car accident Sunday in Egypt.

NO, Dave Kendall doesn't always wear the hat. And as we stepped into his basement office, he smiled and said, "People think that I'm out traveling Kansas all the time, but I'm usually in here - without a window." So there ya go, that dispels two myths about Kendall.

Meadowbrook resident Irene Egan, running as an Independent candidate for the Aquia seat on the Stafford County Board of Supervisors, said that key points to her campaign include schools and public safety.

The Stafford County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a conditional-use permit to allow a cold-weather homeless shelter on King's Highway in south Stafford.

After months of discussion, debate and sometimes-heated presentations from the public, the Stafford County Planning Commission finally voted Wednesday night to recommend denial of a controversial conditional-use permit for a no-kill animal shelter.

With Kansas' wheat on the verge of being harvested, the weather gave the crop one last whack.

Three times is not a charm for Joe Johnson. The Stafford County farmer is tired of severe weather after getting hit three years in a row.

A Stafford man already charged with manufacturing methamphetamine earlier this year in Reno County is now facing similar charges in Stafford County.

A line of storms is moving through the Wichita as the evening unfolds, bringing with it heavy rain, intense lightning, strong winds and small hail.

The Business and Professional Licensing Tax, known as the BPOL, was approved by the Stafford County Board of Supervisors last year.

Stafford High School is scheduled eventually to become a Career and Technical Education Center for 1,000 full-time students.

The wife of Harold Eugene Hughes, who died Tuesday at a rural Ellinwood home, said some information printed about her was not correct.

Eleven year-old Tatumn Watkins doesn't think of herself as a hero. But ask anyone who was at her family reunion last weekend and they'd tell you different.

Chris Wyer knows the mushroom sculpture that adorned his front lawn is not all that valuable.

The Stafford County Sheriff's Office has arrested a Hartwood man for murdering a 61-year-old local man.

I was not surprised by Stafford County Supervisor Mark Dudenhefer's comments of the "potential" placement of Guantanamo prisoners at Quantico ["Terrorists, here? Here's why NIMBY," May 7]. I wonder if he believes it is appropriate to take federal money, but with no accountability.