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- Hill - to turn into fast food street'
TAKEAWAY giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has been given the green light to open premises in Kidderminster.
- Man Injured When Dragged By Truck
A Dodge City man is hospitalized after he was hit and dragged by a semi. The accident happened Thursday morning in Liberal at Airproducts, 1301 County Road G in Liberal.
- Newspaper war rages on Kansas High Plains
One April morning, Earl Watt made his routine appearance on KLKT-TV to promote the day’s headlines in The Southwest Times.He’d worked for the Liberal, Kan., newspaper for 17 years, from pressman to ...
- Transmission fight continues, despite plan
A deal to end a competition over building key high-voltage electric lines through southwest Kansas remained elusive Friday.
- Utilities compromise in building new power grid
Competing utilities Prairie Wind Transmission and ITC Great Plains today announced a compromise that will result in transmission lines that will carry up to six times as much power as existing lines.
- Rivals Offer Compromise in Power Line Fight
Prairie Wind Transmission said Friday it and ITC Great Plains have submitted the idea to the Kansas Corporation Commission .
- Liberal publisher sues upstart daily newspaper
The 121-year-old newspaper in the southwest Kansas town of Liberal is suing its upstart competition - a daily publication in the same town that's published by its former employees.
- KS kindergarteners raise money for Linwood shooting victim
Nice story here about a kindergarten class from Liberal who collected money -- about $53 -- for Katherine Cook, a 5-year-old who was shot in the head while playing in her family's yard in Linwood .
- User comments
The new wall is located in the main hallway of the local hospital and is open to be viewed by the public.
- Up to a new challenge
As Donald Westfall prepared to make the trek north from Liberal, Kan., to the Iron Range to take on a new position at Ironworld, he found himself correcting his acquaintances there on exactly where he planned ...
- Miles joins USAO family inchild development center
In addition to her teaching duties, Dr. Donna Miles also serves as the director of the Child Development Center at USAO.
- Kansas man killed in Harper County collisionEds: A ...
Kansas man killed in Harper County collisionEds: APNewsNow.LAVERNE, Okla. -- A 19-year-old man from Liberal, Kan., has died in a two-vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 283 in Harper County in far northwestern ...
- In Texas fields, no poppies blow; 'forgotten' Canadians and Britons
World War I Royal Flying Corps officers and men came to Texas for flight training.
- Liberal Police Search For Man Wanted For Attempted Murder
Liberal Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man wanted for attempted murder.
- KU to honor 65 high school seniors from six southwest Kansas counties Nov. 5
Students from five Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Nov. 5, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment.
- 55Wedding Anniversary Shirley & Robert Kennedy married October 25, 1953
Robert and Shirley Kennedy of Bella Vista will observe their 55 th wedding anniversary Oct.
- Distillers grains seminar set Oct. 28
Oklahoma State University's Oklahoma Panhandle Research and Extension Center is hosting a seminar regarding the use of ethanol by-products in beef cattle production Oct.
- Police Seek Man Who Beat Teenager
Liberal Police are asking for the public's help finding a man accused of beating a teenager.
- Heavy rain reported in western Kansas
As of Sunday afternoon, the city of Liberal had received 3.15 inches of rain from the recent storms.
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City DescriptionLiberal is a city in Seward County, Kansas, United States. The population was 19,666 at the United States Census 2000. It is the county seat of Seward County. Ironically, Liberal lies right in the middle of America's conservative heartland, along with Beaver and Hooker.
S. S. Rogers built the first house in what would become Liberal in 1872. Rogers would give water to travelers, who in turn told him something to the effect, 'that is very liberal of you.' In 1885 Rogers built a general store, and with it came an official U.S. Post Office, which needed a name. Rogers named the post office 'Liberal'. After the railroad was built close by, a plan for the town site was created in 1888. A year later the population was around 800.
Drought would cause some farmers to give up and look for more fertile territory. When the Indian Territory was opened, more settlers headed to the cheap land that would become Oklahoma.
Gas was discovered west of town, in what would become part of the massive Panhandle-Hugoton Gas Field, in 1920. Oil would be discovered southwest of town in 1951. In 1963 the largest helium plant in the world, National Helium, was opened.
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