Month: May 2019

The headline from the Hutchinson News brought good news for Kansas: This year’s wheat crop looks promising, even though its development has been slowed by cool weather this spring. The wheat crop and agriculture in…

Dear Carolyn: My sister’s husband confessed to an online affair and apparently is going through a major midlife crisis. My poor sister is of course stressed and worried, although they are doing marriage counseling and…

MOSBY, Mo. (AP) — The residents of this small riverside town have become accustomed to watching floods swamp their streets, transform their homes into islands and ruin their floors and furniture. Elmer Sullivan has replaced…

You know we’re in trouble when President Donald Trump looks like the adult in the White House. Starting on May 5, Trump’s hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, dramatically escalated pressure on Iran — dispatching…

DEAR DR. ROACH: I suffer from depression. It comes and goes, but I’ve been feeling sad, worried and angry at the world, as well as irritable, for the past four months or so. I force…

Ruby A. Roush, age 67, of Gas City, died Sunday, May 26, 2019, at her home.  She was born June 24, 1951 in Colony, to William Thompson and Mary (Yocham) Akin.  She married Larry Churning;…

EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — A tornado leveled a motel and tore through a mobile home park near Oklahoma City overnight, killing two people and injuring at least 29 others before a second twister raked…

Local library personnel toured six area libraries last Tuesday as part of the Southeast Kansas Library System Bus Trip to Libraries.  Roger Carswell, Kim Rutter, and Tammie Benham of SEKLS, and Leah Oswald and Lesa…

GRIDLEY — A crossroad pipe project west of Gridley will force the closure of K-58 highway for about three days, the Kansas Department of Transportation announced. Traffic in rural Coffey County will need to use…

The 62nd Biblesta Committee plans a Chicken Dinner Fundrasier from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall at Ninth and Amos Street in Humboldt. The menu includes fried chicken…