Allen Community College Theatre has announced its performances for the season. Director Trevor Belt said he picked plays that could be performed in a socially distant way for the safety of performers during the coronavirus…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in an intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning that his allies believe is linked…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — At least 4,800 chicks shipped to Maine farmers through the U.S. Postal Service have arrived dead in recent weeks after rapid cuts hit the federal mail carrier’s operations, U.S. Rep. Chellie…

TOPEKA — The secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Wednesday the state’s coronavirus testing capacity should be dramatically expanded through contracts with commercial laboratories required to deliver results within 48 hours.…

Noah Gordon gave the Communion Meditation at Colony Community Church Sunday. During World War II, many countries tried to remain neutral in the hopes that they wouldn’t be attacked, but many were anyway. Many of…

OTTAWA — Klaira Hayes, Grace Snethen and Alivia Sharp were recognized at the Aug. 2 annual recital at Spotlight Dance Academy. Former Iolan, Mallory Melvin Watkins, owns the Academy. Hayes is the daughter of Jared…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas this week condemned the Overland Park Police Department for an “overly reactive and militarized response” to a Black Lives Matter protest. In a letter addressed to Overland Park…

Wendell Edwin Troxel passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020 at his home near Moran, with his family by his side, following a recent cancer diagnosis. He was 91 years old, born to Fred…

James Leroy Mechling, 81, of McCune, died at 2:49 p.m., Friday, Aug. 14, 2020 at his residence. James was born Oct. 1, 1938 in McCune, the son of Ely and Edith (Morrow) Mechling. He grew…

Dear Dr. Roach: My 77-year-old sister has what she and I believe is vulvodynia. She’s in horrible pain in her vaginal area and has had every test imaginable. She has been seen by her general…