Liberal

Murder charge upgraded

A Seward County man accused of killing his two young sons in a burning travel trailer has been charged with capital murder.

Rowdy Fox, 4, and Chance Fox, 6, both of Hooker, Okla., died March 27 during a visit with their father, Bob Fox, of Liberal.

Prosecutors initially charged him with two counts of first-degree murder. One of the counts was upgraded Thursday.

Yoder

Bus crash injures six

A school bus was struck by a tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon while crossing a highway in Reno County, injuring the bus driver and all five students aboard, authorities said.

The accident happened shortly after 3:30 p.m., about seven miles south of Hutchinson, as the Haven School District bus pulled across the westbound lanes of Kansas Highway 96, Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson said.

Four people on the bus were taken to Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital in Wichita and two were taken to Hutchinson Hospital, the sheriff said. Their names and ages and the extent of their injuries could not immediately be learned.

The truck’s driver and passenger sustained what Henderson called minor injuries as they tried to get into the bus to help those inside.

Junction City

Walleye tournament coming to Milford Lake

Milford Lake will play host to a professional walleye fishing tournament next year, an event with a $320,000 purse that’s expected to draw thousands of visitors.

The three-day 2005 In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail Mercury Championship will be in September, with exact dates to be announced.