Sports fans looking for pure heart don't need to travel to Manhattan for the K-State game this weekend.
    In fact, they don't have to go any further than Pawnee Heights High School, whose varsity volleyball team gave heart a new meaning during the season opener against Spearville Tuesday night.

U.S. Senator Sam Brownback called a town meeting for the people of southwestern Kansas yesterday — and the people came.
    In fact, Dodge City Community College's theater was so packed that people stood in the aisles. The college went all out to welcome Brownback, who has his eye on the governor's office, but is, like most Congressional minority members, pounding the home pavement in an effort to defeat the Obama administration's health care reform bill.

On the second day of the fall term, Daniel Dawson sat in an armchair in a corner of his Sacred Heart classroom, reading aloud to a large group of 10-year-old children.

    Dodge City Public Library offers two programs designed to make you more computer literate: a basic computer class at 3 p.m. Thursday and a Web development workshop for beginners at 10 a.m. Friday.

Southwestern Kansas hasn't been hit hard by the H1N1 virus, and the state wants to keep things that way.

All was quiet on the middle school front Tuesday.
    It was the first day of the academic year, and Dodge City's youngest teenagers behaved beautifully. Lines were orderly, laughter was muffled, kids were alert, uniforms were neat and teachers were smiling.

You've seen the ads on TV encouraging adults to improve their lives by getting their high school diploma. You may have wondered just how much impact that diploma could have on someone's life.
    Nacho Sumaya, director of the Dodge City Education Center, has the answer.
    "We have studies that show that getting your high school diploma will increase your lifetime earning capacity by about $250,000," he said.

Dodge City High School's resource rooms are packed with some valuable new resources - teachers.
    Eight of USD 443's most recently recruited faculty members were busy getting ready for the new school year Monday, along with the rest of Dodge City's teachers.

Corky the coyote was missing from Kinsley on Thursday.

In the summer of 2008, 25 members of the Dodge City High School marching band and staff traveled to Hutchinson for a Drum Corps International show. Seth Bush was among those in the crowd, thinking to himself, "That's something I'd like to do next summer."