Month: March 2020

MADRID (AP) — Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has, or previously had, the…

TORONTO (AP) — Canada is increasing a payroll subsidy to small- and medium-sized businesses to now cover up to 75 percent of salaries as the country braced for a shutdown that a top health official…

An unprecedented set of events — a global coronavirus pandemic declaration, which precipitated a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia — has the world’s oil industry teetering toward collapse. And while local merchants, businesses…

25 Years Ago McKinley Elementary School fifth-graders and several city officials were present at Tuesday’s opening of Cofachique Park. The students named the park in honor of the first county seat, a small pro-slavery community…

Editor’s note: Information in this court report may be limited, as the Allen County District Court is closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed: Kylie…

Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Jason Glukowsky, 33, Iola, for suspicion of aggravated battery following an incident Wednesday afternoon in the 400 block of South Sycamore Street. Laura Simpson, 21, Iola, was arrested Monday…

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced Friday, becoming the world’s highest-profile political leader to reveal an infection. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting swiftly in an extraordinary time, the House rushed President Donald Trump a $2.2 trillion rescue package Friday, tossing a life preserver to a U.S. economy and health care system left flailing…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman has been charged with fatally shooting a man as they met in the parking lot of a Kansas City police station to exchange children. Twenty-seven-year-old Deshonia Diamond is…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The number of jobless workers in Kansas who filed initial unemployment claims last week was 12 times as high as it was the week before as measures to control the spread…