Month: May 2019

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband is 75. I am 68. Our family doctor says that our blood pressure average is fine at 140/80 with no medicine. We thought it should be 120/70, but he says…

Dear Carolyn: I just found out I’m pregnant and I’m not happy about it. Quick backstory: I’m about to turn 40 and recently married my boyfriend of six years. We almost didn’t get married because…

Mike Epperson clears belongings from his storage unit on South State Street Tuesday.   With forecasts for more rain likely, Iolans continue to brace for what could be the city’s worst flooding since 2007. Residents…

Dear Carolyn: My ex-husband and I divorced when our daughter was 3. I went on to get remarried to a man who had two children from a previous marriage. We then had two kids of…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has signed into law a bill that would allow profoundly ill people who have been unable to find relief with pharmaceutical medications to avoid prosecution for possessing…

COLONY — Honor rolls for the second semester of the 2018-19 school year have been announced at Crest High School. The rolls follow. All A Superintendent’s Honor Roll: 12th Grade — Jewel Armstrong, Regan Godderz,…

SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration, under court order to determine how many additional families had been separated at the border prior to the nationwide rollout of the controversial zero tolerance policy, has so far…

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Washington has become the first state to legalize “human composting,” an alternative to conventional burial and cremation that produces topsoil suitable for gardening. Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday permitting the practice,…

CRYSTAL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A U.S. soldier who had just returned home from overseas surprised his 8-year-old son from behind home plate as the boy stepped up to bat at a youth baseball game…