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City to check substructure below Adventure Bay Water Park

ELLY GRIMM • Leader & Times Changes to Adventure Bay Water Park will be taking another step forward thanks to action taken by the Liberal ...

Kinser upgrades role with Grace Place

ROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times After receiving a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Oklahoma City University, Rhonda Kinser’s C...

Hugoton man injured attempting to evade officers

ROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times A Hugoton man was taken to a Wichita hospital with a suspected serious injury as the result of an accident ...

Veronica Butler’s mother files emergency motion in wrongful ...

Special to the Leader & Times TEXAS COUNTY, Okla. (KFDA) – The mother of Veronica Butler has filed an emergency motion in her ongoing wrongful...

Treatment Court sees two more graduates improve lives

ROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times In October, the City of Liberal’s Treatment Court program hosted its latest graduation, and this is the fir...

Local pastor visits war-torn Ukraine to offer encouragement

ROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times The Bill of Rights has been a large part of America’s heritage from the nation’s roots in the late 18th cen...

L&T celebrates 25 years of Christmas parades

ELLY GRIMM • Leader & Times There is a chill in the air, which means it is almost time for the annual Downtown Liberal Christmas Parade. ...

13-year-old driver attempts to evade KHP

ROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times Three Liberal teens suffered injuries in an accident last Saturday evening. The Kansas Highway Patrol repo...

Vazquez receives community service award from KSNN

ROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times Over the course of her life, Janeth Vazquez has received multiple awards for advocating for various issues....

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Testimony continues in double homicide trial

ROBERT PIERCE

• Leader & Times

Thursday’s portion of testimony in the case against Pablo Roman Ramirez was primarily focused on a man convicted in connection with the alleged murders of Timothy Martin and Erick Salas April 2, 2019.

After being much of the focus of previous testimony, Ralph Salas Jr. took the stand Thursday. He was arrested in 2022 for two counts each of first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary, as well as other charges.

Officials with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Martin’s and Erick’s bodies were found in separate locations in April 2019, with Martin’s body discovered by a farmer on his property near U.S. Highway 54 and the Kansas/Oklahoma state line in Texas County, Okla.

Change coming for 2026 Pancake Day Race

ELLY GRIMM

• Leader & Times

The 2026 International Pancake Day Race will be here before everyone knows it, and there will be a big change coming.

As Pancake day Board President Mike Brack tells it, there had been some discussion about the change before.

“Between Liberal and Olney, we've always tried to maintain the same rules when it comes to the International Pancake Day Race so everything's fair – there has been some minor flexibility in some areas, but for the most part, all of the rules are the same here as they are in Olney,” Brack said. “With how we have everything in Liberal, we have to set a deadline roughly 30 days before the race in order to make sure we have women signed up to run in the International race, while in Olney, women had the opportunity to sign up for the race the day of, and they always have more than 15 racers. With Olney being a small community, they've allowed women from the surrounding areas, if they're employed in Olney, to run in the race – and in Liberal, we have people driving in from Hugoton and the Oklahoma Panhandle for work. So starting with the 2026 race, ladies who don't reside in Liberal but work here are eligible to participate in the race, and they still have to follow all the other race rules and everything else. In years past, it's been a bit disappointing to not have a full slate of racers in the International Race, so we're hoping this change will help motivate not only Liberal ladies to run in the race and sign up earlier, but also women from other communities in the area.”

County sales tax proposal suffers major defeat

EARL WATT

• Leader & Times

Seward County voters soundly rejected a proposed half-cent sales tax to help fund county road improvements in Tuesday’s election.

The vote tally was 1,230 votes against the measure with only 427 in support.

The proposed tax needed the permission of the Kansas Legislature to be placed on the ballot, but the issue was a compounded tax increase when paired with the increased valuation for city property owners as well as a massive 14.8 mill increase approved by three of the five Seward County Commissioners.

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City to check substructure below Adventure Bay Water Park

Kinser upgrades role with Grace Place

Hugoton man injured attempting to evade officers

Veronica Butler’s mother files emergency motion in wrongful ...

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