Month: May 2018

High School Track and Field: State Track and Field Championship The 2017-18 high school sports season wrapped up on Saturday at the State Track and Field Championship meet at Cessna Stadium in Wichita. Athletes from…

LAWRENCE — Moran’s Emily Boyd, who will be a senior at the University of Kansas majoring in chemistry, is one of three KU students to be named as “Astronaut Scholars” for Emily Boyd the 2018-19…

High School Baseball: Iola Mustangs and Fillies Last week, the Pioneer League coaches got together to make their all-league selections for the 2018 baseball and softball season and several Mustangs and Fillies earned first- or…

Friday is the deadline for candidates in Kansas to make it official by filing with the secretary of state’s office to appear on the ballot. That date is also an important cutoff for voters. It’s…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Major party candidates for Kansas governor are using their running-mate picks to bolster key campaign themes, help with potential political trouble spots and ensure that their ticket represents different regions of…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Four fluffy, white peregrine falcon chicks that hatched less than a month ago in Topeka are growing and healthy. Officials on Monday but bands on the four chicks, which hatched on…

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing — these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. — Tim…

In January of 1922, nearly thirty years after swapping his native Sweden for the rolling plains of central Kansas, the painter Birger Sandzén received his first one-man show in New York City. To this day,…

Kansas lawmakers should demand a thorough review of the state’s rules for awarding no-bid, sole-source contracts. That message is clear from recent reporting in The Star and Wichita Eagle. During the past eight years, Kansas…

Kentucky, Florida, Maryland, California, Texas and, on Friday morning, Indiana. Those are states in 2018 where a student or former student has gone to school with a gun and shot others. Kansas, thankfully, is not…