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Kidnapping-aggravated battery hearing set
While a 31-year-old Hutchinson area man will face trial in June for one case, there is now a preliminary hearing set in the other. That occurred Wednesday afternoon during the waiver-status docket in...
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Your 7-Day Forecast
A mild spring day will be on tap for Friday, with breezy conditions and high temperatures in the lower 70s. The chance of showers and thunderstorms will begin to increase for Saturday afternoon across...
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Sentencing In Attempted Murder Case Set For Friday
After being continued last week, a Hutchinson man found guilty of two counts of aggravated battery, aggravated burglary and aggravated assault is again scheduled for sentencing Friday. Troy Bell had...
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State Reaches Plea Deal With Hutch Man In Manufacturing Case
A 35-year-old Hutchinson man arrested back in September of 2012 for being involved in a meth manufacturing had wanted some evidence suppressed in the case against him, but apparently will enter a plea...
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USD 308 Students To Hear Employer Views On Drug Use
Students at the Hutchinson Career and Technical Education Academy will have the opportunity to hear employer viewpoints about drug use on Tuesday, April 29, at the HCTEA’s Events Center, 800 15th...
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Hutch man faces sentencing Friday in child sex case
A 38-year-old Hutchinson man guilty of attempted rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated criminal sodomy is scheduled for sentencing in Friday. The state had actually charged...
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Judge throws out blood evidence in manslaughter case
District Judge Trish Rose issued a written opinion this week on a defense motion to suppress the blood evidence of a 42-year-old Halstead man charged with involuntary manslaughter. Judge Rose granted...
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Hutch police looking for this man as a person of interest
The Hutchinson Police Department needs your help identifying the male in this picture. He is a person of interest in a case at Dillon’s. If you know his identity please call Crime Stoppers of Reno...
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911 dispatchers celebrated this week
911 Dispatcher Alicia Sparks works with Hutchinson Police Thursday in the center located in the basement of the Hutchinson / Reno County Law Enforcement Center. This week is “National Public Safety...
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Your Easter weekend forecast
After windy and warmer weather conditions on Saturday…showers and thunderstorms will on the increase Easter Sunday and Sunday Night as thunderstorms spread eastward across Kansas and neighboring...
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Former Newspaper Employee Accused Of Embezzlement
A former Hutchinson News employee is free on a 15-thousand dollar bond after he was arrested for three crimes associated with embezzling thousands of dollars while collecting money from customers....
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Minor accident sends Hutchinson man to jail for DUI
Reno County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to an injury accident a 1/2 mile west of Mayfield on 43rd. A passerby reported that a vehicle had gone off the side of the road and someone was trapped...
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Local unemployment numbers show slight drop
The unemployment rate here in Hutchinson dropped slightly in March according to the numbers released from the Kansas Department of Labor. The rate for the city last month was 5.2%, down from 5.4% in...
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Sentencing hearing in child sex case continued again
For the second week in a row, the sentencing hearing for a 38-year-old Hutchinson man found guilty of attempted rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated criminal sodomy has been...
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Hutch man gets 55-months in stabbing incident
After being continued last week, a Hutchinson man found guilty of two counts of aggravated battery, aggravated burglary and aggravated assault was sentenced Friday to a total of 55-months for those...
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Former Blue Dragon gets probation for computer crime
A former Hutchinson Community College woman’s basketball player who was originally charged with sexual exploitation of a child was sentenced Friday to 8-months on a reduced charge of committing a...
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7-day forecast
Storms are expected to develop along dryline over western Kansas on Wednesday afternoon and track east across central and south central Kansas Wednesday night. Severe storms will be possible with this...
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Drug take back day
Take Our Poll The South Hutchinson Police Department will once again provide the free disposal of unused medications as part of the state wide drug take back day set for Saturday, April 26. The...
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Flee & Elude trial underway
A 34-year-old Hutchinson man accused of two alternate counts of felony flee and elude has his 2012 case before a jury this week. Kenneth Hamilton was charged after he failed to stop for a law...
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Twin Brothers Arrested By Police
While Hutchinson Police were called to investigate allegations against one brother, they managed to make contact with both leading to them both being arrested. 33-year-old Raymon Hunter is jailed on a...
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