BAXTER SPRINGS, KS – The Girard Trojans hit the road to face the Baxter Springs Lions and headed into the evening in search of their third consecutive win. As for the Lions, they looked to bounce off ...

BAXTER SPRINGS, KS — The 12U Kansas Little League All-Star State Tournament kicked off this afternoon at Wayne Metcalf Field in Baxter Springs. Cherokee and Baxter Springs played game one of the ...

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. — A Chetopa, Kansas, man who skipped out on his sentencing hearing in March in a burglary case, was located Friday morning at a hotel in Baxter Springs and arrested. The Cherokee ...

May 27—BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. — Members of the Baxter Springs Historical Society broke ground recently on a future Route 66 roadside park. It will adjoin the Route 66 Visitors Center and provide parking ...

As the nation sorted out all the economic disruptions caused by the Civil War, satisfying the nation’s desire for beef connected Texas and Kansas by way of the Shawnee Trail. The destination for those ...

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kans. — A southeast Kansas shooting suspect is in custody after a pursuit in the Springfield area late Tuesday night. Shawn Houston, 38, was wanted on a outstanding Attempted Murder ...

Thankfully, the actual Ozarks are quite a bit different from that excessively brutal and dark (figuratively and literally) TV show starring Jason Bateman. The actual Ozarks are teeming with one ...

A suspected gunman, the mother of his child and their 2-year-old daughter were killed in March 2022 in Baxter Springs, Kansas during a hostage situation with police. Cherokee County Sheriff's ...

A KCUR and Midwest Newsroom investigation reveals the chain of events that ended in a police sniper shooting and killing 2-year-old Clesslyn Crawford in 2022. Police snipers are trained to only shoot ...

Officials in Joplin have released body camera recordings from a standoff in Kansas where a police sniper killed a 2-year-old girl, whose family later received a $1.5 million settlement. Footage ...