Month: March 2018

Maxine Redfearn hosted a March 14 Dirt Diggers Garden Club meeting. Members planned a field trip to Little John Sherwood Greenhouse and lunch in Garnett at 11 a.m. April 18. Dorothy McGhee gave a program,…

De QUEEN, Ark. (AP) — A group of inmates is tending up to 200 roosters at an Arkansas sheriff’s office pending their use as evidence against 137 people arrested at a cockfight. Sheriff Robert Gentry…

President Trump’s penchant for living life as if it were a reality TV show may end up getting his next season canceled. The president faces three lawsuits from three women accusing him of sexual harassment…

Tim Williams, whose longtime friend Brian Jennings was among the four people killed by “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch’s drunken driving in 2013, forgave Couch long before their first jail-house visit. Now, after meeting with him…

50 Years Ago March 1968 27 — The annual meeting of the Kansas Association of Rural Water Districts will be held at the Little Theater in Riverside Park Saturday. Carl Conger of Iola is president…

Driverless cars offer a future with fewer deaths on the roadways. Today, roughly nine out of 10 car crashes are caused by human error; autonomous vehicles, with their sensors, radars and undistractable computer-driven system, should…

Almost 85 million households in the United States in 2017 share their lives with at least one pet. For many people, pets are not just companions — more than 63 percent of pet owners consider…

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants a full pardon for hemp. The Kentucky Republican on Monday previewed legislation seeking to free the plant from its ties to marijuana and let it…

FORT SCOTT — Fescue grass greens up early in the spring, responds well to fertilizer, and provides lush green growth, making it a popular lawn grass. It’s also a popular pasture grass, but the thing…

The ex-girlfriend of one of the men accused of plotting an attack against immigrants in Garden City says the men spent months studying how to make homemade explosives. Lula Harris was on the witness stand…