Month: November 2018
A special perk of an awards banquet is the element of surprise. And none was caught more off guard Friday night than former Iola Mayor John McRae who was honored with a Lifetime Service Award…
Community Thanksgiving meals are planned Thursday in both Humboldt and LaHarpe. The Humboldt feast runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Humboldt United Methodist Church, 806 N. Ninth St. The Light of LaHarpe…
Volunteers with Humanity House took a break Saturday morning from their efforts to decorate the downtown square for Christmas.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas attorney general proposed Friday that legislators strip the secretary of states office of its power to prosecute voter fraud cases, less than four years after lawmakers made conservative Republican Kris…
Janice Jan D. Kovacic, 74, of Chanute, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. She was born April 24, 1944, at Wichita, to Wilola Wise and Ray L. Smith. She graduated from Chanute High School…
LONDON (AP) British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to seal business support for her Brexit deal with the European Union on Monday, but remained on a collision course with a group of lawmakers seeking…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A cancer-causing chemical that leaked from a closed industrial site near the Springfield airport is appearing in the Fantastic Caverns tourist stop. Litton Systems used the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) to…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Kansas State University officials estimate that half of the Manhattan campus will be powered by wind by 2020. University officials announced on Tuesday a new agreement with Missouri-based Westar Energy, the…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A federal lawsuit says foster children in Kansas are shuffled between homes and facilities so much that they can be essentially rendered homeless while in state custody. The Kansas City…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has called on a white county official to resign after the official said at a public meeting that he belongs to the master race. (Leavenworth County Kansas…
