TORONTO (AP) — Bo Bichette homered and drove in five runs, Robbie Ray fanned 13 over seven innings to claim the major league strikeout lead and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays…

Even for baseball fans who’ve seen everything, this was a bizarre sight: The entire Baltimore Orioles’ grounds crew, perched behind the tarp and poised to spring into action as a storm approached, suddenly got told…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles told Congress in forceful testimony Wednesday that federal law enforcement and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is indicating that she’s wary of President Joe Biden’s mandate that companies with 100 or more employees require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo…

Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday, “Prayer, Program and Praise,” was taken from 2 Kings 6:8-23. As a result of God’s intervention, Syria came no more into the land of Israel, Traw explained. Guest pianist Rita…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Crowds gathered to protest for a second straight night at a University of Kansas fraternity house where a member is accused of sexually assaulting another student. The Kansas City Star reports…

TOPEKA — Kansas education commissioner Randy Watson says at least 31 Kansas schools are reporting outbreaks of COVID-19, forcing more school districts to close temporarily. COVID-19 cases are up dramatically in school-age children compared to…

The family of Mary “Babe” Collins has called off an in-person celebration of her 90th birthday in light of the current outbreak of COVID-19 cases. The party was to have occurred Sunday. Instead, the family…

Linda Sue Graham, age 73, of Yates Center, died Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. She was born May 9, 1948, in Emporia, to Glen George Shook and Jacquelin Darlene (Johnson) Shook.  She married Jimmie Graham on…

Beverly Rose (Davis) (Hicks) (Wells) Sayles, age 87, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, July 1, 2021, at her home in Moran.  Beverly was born to Don A. and Carrie (McCammon)…