Marmaton Valley Elementary School’s Cynthia Johnson takes the temperature of third-grader Bentley James Parker on the first day of school today. Schools are implementing several precautionary measures to protect against the coronavirus, including temperature checks,…

Thrive Allen County CEO Lisse Regher said that a second round of CARES Act/SPARK funding would soon be made available across the state through the Kansas Department of Commerce. As opposed to the first round…

Allen County voters concerned about the advance ballot process for the Nov. 3 election should submit an application as soon as possible, County Clerk Sherrie Riebel said. Kansas allows voters to request advance ballots until…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed how associates of Donald Trump had…

Hi, Carolyn: Can you help me articulate the difference between a consequence and a threat? I said to my family recently about a weekly event that we all enjoy but for which I do most…

BERLIN (AP) — Residents of a Swiss town got a bit of a shock when it started snowing particles of a fine cocoa powder after the ventilation system at a chocolate factory malfunctioned. The Lindt…

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona city official making $107,000 a year resigned after an investigation found he used city workers for an outside job involving an attempt to secure irrigation water for farmers who paid…

EDMOND, Okla. — Humboldt’s Justin Jay did some heavy lifting Saturday, setting a record while he was at it. Jay, 24, took place in two divisions at the NASA One Healthy Bod Drug Free Powerlifting…

With permission from the county in hand, work will begin soon to start up a rock quarry near Humboldt Hill. Allen County commissioners reversed last week an earlier decision to deny a conditional use permit…

August 1965 Antique dealers and collectors thronged to Iola yesterday for the auctioning of personal and household items to settle the Dr. F. L. B. Leavell estate.  Buyers by the hundreds crowded onto the lawn…