Trego County News

Worthington, 18, who was wearing a seat belt, was taken to Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital, WaKeeney.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Trego County Attorney Resigns A Northwest Kansas county official resigns after just five months on the job.

Trego County Attorney Jill Elliott, only five months on the job, has resigned. Contacted Thursday, Elliott said she submitted her resignation to Trego County commissioners in a letter Tuesday.

Light flurries appeared in Salina late Saturday afternoon but didna TMt accumulate or slicken roads.

With a volunteer committee of seven, the Trego County ambulance service is purring along.

Even in an uncertain economy, a superior product is more than enough to make a deal work.

State regulators are giving the troubled Trego County ambulance service about 10 days to get into compliance or face the possibility of losing its license.

For a few days this week, August and September swapped weather. Early in the week, thoughts of sweaters were on residents' minds, as the low temperature dipped into the 50s.

Don't forget to put Collyer on your calendar for Sept. 12. That's when the fifth annual Collyer Fall Street Festival and Custom Car and Tractor Show is scheduled.

For two long, hard weeks, Jack Stevenson watched the trial of the man charged with killing his only brother.

A Gove County jury has convicted David A. Stevenson of first-degree murder in connection with the death of his father.

By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net WaKEENEY - After deliberating for nearly four hours Friday, a Gove County jury convicted David A. Stevenson of first-degree murder in connection with the death of his father.

WaKEENEY a ' The first-degree murder case against David A. Stevenson was put in the hands of a six-man, six-woman jury this morning.

A WaKeeney teenager was taken to the hospital Friday morning following a one-vehicle accident about 4 miles south of Ogallah.

Prosecutors continued Monday to try to link David A. Stevenson to his father's death.

Testifying before a packed courtroom, District Coroner Lyle Noordhoek on Friday detailed the grisly death of an 85-year-old Gove County farmer.

Nolan Gregory Smith, 19, of WaKeeney, was injured Friday morning in a rollover crash four miles south of Ogallah.

Now, Ray Seemann and the rest of the United Rebel Sprint Series 305 sprint cars will get a chance to finish what they started.

The wheels were turning for the 2010 season. But they started turning a bit faster during the holidays for Tyler Kraus.

A little fingerpainting, some hula hoops and a lid to a hog feeder. Trego County 4-Hers put all those items to work, plus a lot of duct tape and staples, to decorate hay bales during a competition Thursday at the Trego County Fair.