Month: June 2019

Rotarian Bob McKenzie of Tulsa, Okla., entered his first bicycle race in 2011 to raise money in the fight against polio, Rotary International?s signature effort. A few years later, McKenzie organized his own team for…

MOSCOW (AP) — The number of Russian athletes accused of receiving banned treatments from a doctor could rise to 70, the country’s anti-doping agency said today. The agency, known as RUSADA, previously said Monday it…

Decommissioned fuel pumps at the Allen County Airport cost the county an estimated 10,000 gallons in lost fuel sales, commissioners learned at their meeting Tuesday. With the pumps back on line, the county hopes to…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ tax collections have beaten expectations nearly every month for the past two years and the state expects to end June with close to $1 billion in cash reserves, but the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan stepped down Tuesday before his formal nomination ever went to the Senate, citing a “painful” family situation that would hurt his children and reopen “wounds we have…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. authorities seized 33,000 pounds, or 16 tons, of cocaine from a ship at Philadelphia’s port in what they described as one of the largest drug busts in American history. They said…

Bernard “BC” Myer, 89 of Wylie, Texas died Sunday, June 16, 2019, in Wylie, Texas of natural causes. He was born on May 5, 1930 to Merle L. Myer and Rose A. Myer in Humboldt. …

Gary L. Wilson, age 72, of Neosho Falls, died Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at his home. He was born June 4, 1947 in Gas to George and Dannie (Gregg) Wilson.  He married Wanda (Cuppy) Wilson…

LOS ANGELES — A man fatally shot by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Costco in Corona pushed the officer — but that does not justify the use of deadly force, an attorney…