Dear editor, The United States has history’s largest incarcerated population, and Kansas is not an outlier. We lock up about 698/100,000 of our neighbors, nearly the same rate as the height of Josef Stalin’s infamous…

TOPEKA — Insomnia compelled Morgan Davis to seek refuge on a small backyard patio offering sanctuary from the downward spiral of her career in the Kansas Army National Guard. On that November evening, the outdoor…

BEL AIRE, Kan. (AP) — The pilot of a small plane suffered only minor injuries when he was forced to make a crash landing near the Wichita suburb of Bel Aire, authorities there said.  The…

MANHATTAN — Tonya Brutchin, of Iola, a senior at Kansas State University Online who is studying personal financial planning, received the K-State Kansas Insurance Certificate Scholarship. Twenty-nine students attending Kansas State University Online received scholarships…

Brant McGhee gave the Communion Meditation this week over the term “simple.” The word simple means that something is easily understood or done. Acts 2:38 calls us to repent and be baptized. Repenting can either…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A dark money group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence’s ex-chief of staff plans to launch an ad campaign next week to pressure Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran into dropping his support…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kris Kobach is representing four Texas sheriffs and a law enforcement group in a federal lawsuit against President Joe Biden and his administration over a policy discouraging the deportation of some…

Josh Eugene Stevens, age 40, of Iola, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, June 27, 2021, at home. He was born Oct. 21, 1980, at Allen County Hospital, the son of Mathie Stevens and Betty Ann…

Richard Thomas White, 72, of Iola, passed away on Thursday, June 24, 2021, at his home. He was born on May 18, 1949, in Wichita, the son of Robert and Elva White. Richard married Linda…

Todd C. Schainost, age 54, of Colorado, formerly of Colony, passed away on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at St. Luke’s Hospital on the Plaza. He was born Sept. 24, 1966, in Garnett, the son of…