MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Chris Klieman probably felt good about the team he was inheriting at Kansas State when the new coach looked down the depth chart and saw a veteran quarterback in Skylar Thompson,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams flubbed yet another shot and wailed, “I keep missing my forehand!” She was in trouble, if only briefly, against 17-year-old American Caty McNally, who is friends, and doubles partners,…

SHANGHAI (AP) — After a month of practice and years of planning, the U.S. men’s basketball team has arrived at the World Cup. An all-night flight from Sydney to Shanghai that landed early Thursday brought…

Adam Thielen’s Thursdays usually are busy. The star wide receiver has a full practice with the Minnesota Vikings as they implement their game plan for the upcoming opponent. Thielen’s football those days isn’t limited to…

Despite red flags raised by Sheriff Bryan Murphy, Allen County commissioners passed a 2020 budget Tuesday. Murphy’s biggest concern is that the jail has 17 employees for whom commissioners have ordered Murphy give 3% cost…

One of the most dispiriting aspects of life under a new administration in Topeka is the continual revelation of expensive gaps caused by previous administrations. As Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration has approached its work in…

Lake Johnson could have been an engineer, until he decided that he really didn’t like college chemistry. “It was really hard. I thought, ‘I don’t like this anymore,” he said. So he changed his major…

Arrest Christopher Tieman, 48, Hillsboro, Mo., was arrested Aug. 23 by Iola police on suspicion of driving under the influence, improper driving and no headlamps in the 10 block of West Jackson Avenue. Accident A…

For Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, approving the compensation Lamonte McIntyre is owed should not be a tough call. After all, the 42-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man spent 23 years in prison for a 1994…

James Delbert West, age 76, of Iola, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.  He was born April 2, 1943, in Wichita, the son of Elmer F.…