Month: February 2022

A key organizer of the trucker protest that besieged Canada’s capital city was denied bail Tuesday as police kept a strict checkpoint system in place to prevent demonstrators from retaking the downtown streets. Tamara Lich,…

U.S. women soccer players reached a landmark agreement with the sport’s American governing body to end a six-year legal battle over equal pay, a deal in which they are promised $24 million plus bonuses that…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday in a verdict that affirmed what family members and civil rights activists…

MOSCOW (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered heavy U.S. financial sanctions against Russian banks and oligarchs on Tuesday, stepping up the West’s confrontation with Moscow, even as Russian lawmakers authorized President Vladimir Putin to use…

Russia’s Vladimir Putin justified usurpation of two more Ukrainian territories on Monday as a reunification of what he says has historically been “one people,” one country. Shortly after, he ordered Russian troops into the regions…

Iola High School’s graduation rate reached its highest level in years, surpassing the state average for possibly the first time.  Principal Scott Carson last week gave board members an update on graduation rates.  In May…

Kamila Valieva, an Olympic figure skating competitor for the Russian Olympic Committee, was poised to take home a gold medal. Despite being just 15 years old, Valieva may never compete in another Olympic Games. This…

Allen’s men’s basketball was triumphant in its biggest test of the season on Monday’s home game against Johnson County. The Red Devils knocked off the fifth-ranked team in the nation 75-71.  Johnson County took an…

BRUSSELS (AP) — With the smell of war in the air over Europe, world leaders got over the shock of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to deploy troops to separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and…

Allen’s women’s basketball team fell to the top-ranked Cavaliers of Johnson County on Monday, 59-43. Allen came out flat, and was hesitant to shoot for much of the first half while the Cavaliers established a…