Panthers to host Larned today at 4

After officials deemed the baseball field at the Great Bend Sports Complex was too soggy to play Larned High School on Thursday in a doubleheader, the Great Bend Panthers and the Indians will try a...

Panthers headed to Emporia for Class 5A state tennis tourney

Nick Moyers and his Great Bend High School teammates are embarking on the Class 5A state tennis tournament today and Saturday at Emporia High School. A seedings meeting was scheduled for this morn...

Great Bend falters at conference track meet

DODGE CITY - The Western Athletic Conference track and field meet was not kind to Great Bend High School on Thursday evening.Both the girls and boys finished in fifth place at Memorial Stadium."The...

BASHFUL PERFORMANCE

It turned out to be their best power display of the high school softball season - thus far.Samantha Dreiling hit a bases-empty home run in the bottom of the inning, McKenna Mauler crashed a two-run...

Lady Panthers drop game 4-0 at Junction City

JUNCTION CITY - The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team finished their regular season with a 4-0 loss against Junction City on Thursday evening.The loss drops the Lady Panthers to 1-15 overal...

Oilers lead area in state tournament entries

Central Plains High School will be sending its entire boys' tennis team to the Class 3-1A state tournament, which starts today at Hillsboro Sports Complex.The two-day competition will start at 11:3...

Lady Panthers capture WAC title

Heading into Thursday evening's Western Athletic Conference swim meet at Kirkman Activity Center, Great Bend High School head coach Steve Beaumont said he expected it would be tough.After securing ...

Royals hit three home runs, handle Orioles 6-2

BALTIMORE - Jeremy Guthrie's incentive to win had nothing to do with beating his former team.The right-hander was far more interested in helping the Kansas City Royals maintain the momentum they ge...

Trash talk

The senior class president of Heights High School in Wichita was suspended for the rest of the school year after posting a bit of trash talk about the school football team on Twitter.Tweets are ele...

OTR for May 10, 2013

Kansas Highway PatrolA 1981 Airtractor 301 crop duster made a crash landing Wednesday in Rice County, shortly before 4 p.m.. The pilot, Edward C. Smith, 54, from Lecompton not injured.Smith was fly...

BCC may opt out of conceal carry law

Barton Community College trustees may request an exemption to a new gun law taking effect July 1.The law was discussed Thursday at the board's monthly study session, with Barton President Carl Heil...

Edmonds signs Civility Pledge

CONCORDIA - Rep. John Edmonds, R-Great Bend, has signed the Civility Pledge, a spokesman for the Concordia Year of Peace committee announced.Kansas legislators were invited to make a commitment "to...

Salad days

With high hopes that the area has seen the end of frost for the year, a full-house turned out to learn the how-tos of container gardening at the Great Bend Rec activity center Thursday. Raised bed...

‘NOW HIRING’

A sign on one of the tables read "we're hiring."That pretty much summed up the seventh-annual Job Fest at the Best Western Courtyard in Great Bend Thursday evening. Employers and potential employee...

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