ATLANTA — Dr. Alluri Raju, a native of India, vividly remembers how his ethnicity prompted concern and discrimination in the southwest Georgia town of Richland. Doctors there hesitated to grant the family practitioner and general…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of “witches” traded in broomsticks for paddles in Oregon during the last weekend. The costumed coven paddled 6 miles on boards Saturday along the Willamette River, which divides the city…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The economy expanded in nine Midwestern and Plains states last month despite mounting concerns about tariffs and trade skirmishes, according to a report released today. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index slumped…

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a baggage handler told them he was drunk when he fell asleep in a cargo hold and flew from Kansas City to Chicago. American Airlines says the Piedmont Airlines employee…

President Trump’s latest election-season proposal — the elimination of birthright citizenship through a Constitutionally dubious executive order — should be called out for what it is. Dangerous pandering. Let’s deal with the pandering part first.…

She lived 97 years, only to be gunned down in her synagogue. That was the unfair end to the life that Rose Mallinger lived with energy, love and joy. While the enormity of Saturday’s mass…

WASHINGTON — Tuesday morning brought a textbook illustration of Trumponomics. Under this economic theory — defined roughly as “when it’s sunny, credit me; when it rains, blame them” — President Trump has been claiming sole…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas county clerk who moved the only polling site in the historic Wild West town of Dodge City to a facility outside the city limits more than a mile from…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has been charged in a crash that killed an off-duty Wichita police officer and his son. Sedgwick County sheriff’s Lt. Tim Myers said in a news release that…

BURLINGTON — Both the Humboldt and Iola middle school wrestling teams opened up their seasons at the 20th Annual Burlington Bobcat Invitational on Monday. For Humboldt, the meet was the first in program history. It’s…