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Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels "The Skinning Tree" and "A Whisper For Help." As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association's Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
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Era of antisemitism takes life of former Prairie Village woman, and the man who would have been her husband
A couple soon to be married – the woman a Johnson County, Kansas native – was gunned down Wednesday night...
22May 2025

Dems drown Biden, themselves in depths of Trump hate
Hate is powerful, but until former president Joe Biden’s admission this week that he was riddled with cancer, most Americans...
22May 2025

U.S. 169 crash that killed 8 took coaches, members of Oklahoma youth sports team
Bystanders attempt to rescue the occupants of the burning vehicles at the crash near Lane on Sunday./Still Video Capture LANE...
06May 2025

Eight killed, one injured in head-on collision on U.S. 169 Sunday
Emergency responders massed at the scene of a collision Sunday on U.S. 169 in Franklin County north of Greeley that...
05May 2025

SEKMHC board members still mum about salaries they approved that rile commissioners, public
Members of the board of directors for the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center are remaining mum about the ongoing salary...
27Apr 2025

Lee bans reporter from SEKMHC counties meeting, but salaries mechanics remain unchanged
A meeting of county commissioners at the Allen County Courthouse Thursday to discuss what some are calling exorbitantly high salaries...
22Apr 2025

Defense wants to restrict investigation photos in Seneca priest’s murder
SENECA – The lawyer for the man accused in the murder of a popular Seneca Catholic priest has asked the...
21Apr 2025

Why hasn’t anyone stopped Bert Smith IV from stealing cattle?
Photo Credit: Smithsonian Magazine With his $3.7 million civil court judgement against a notorious cattle scammer now executable in Tennessee,...
14Apr 2025

Identified after 52 years lost, Kansas lawmen will now look for Jimmy Dollison’s killer
KANSAS CITY, Ks.– Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents say they have positively identified the remains of a young man buried...
09Apr 2025

Seneca, Ks., priest shot and killed by former resident
SENECA – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the murder of a...
04Apr 2025