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The call log for the Rooks County Sheriff’s Office for the week of April 20th through April 26th reads as follows: Administrative Calls 318, 9-1-1 Calls 18, Criminal Cases 1, Miscellaneous Cases 4, Traffic Stops 1, Motor Assists 1, Papers Served 4, Animal Calls 2, and Average Num ber Of Inmates...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added six new possible symptoms of the coronavirus to its list: chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and a loss of taste or smells.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is urging Kansans to use caution against a new text message scam involving COVID-19.

Even though she is mostly hidden behind a homemade safety mask, we recognized former Stockton resident Kathy Ross in a full-color photo on the front page of the Rawlins County Square Deal.

Kansas is once again a national leader in wind-generated renewable energy, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Annual Market Report.

Kansas has received its annual tobacco settlement payment totaling $53.3 million, Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced last week.

The Kansas Department of Transportation began work last week on a bridge replacement project on K-9 in Norton County.

Please read the message in this week’s issue from Dr. Doak Doolittle and the Phillips County Hospital explaining their surgery schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dan Melton surprised his folks, coming home on Saturday and Sunday to help haul bales and cattle. Dan had been furloughed for three weeks from Textron Aviation in Wichita. He then worked two weeks, and was happy to be out in the country after being cooped up inside.

Agricultural producers now have more time to repay Marketing Assistance Loans (MAL) as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020.