UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde on Sunday, mourning privately for three hours with anguished families of the 19 schoolchildren and two teachers killed by a gunman.…

U.S. lawmakers are setting a tight timetable to negotiate new gun laws, with Democrats signaling they would accept limited progress in exchange for some action that would reduce gun violence in the nation. Republicans and…

WICHITA — Three was the magic number at the state track meet Friday, as a trio of local athletes brought home medals — all in the triple jump. Marmaton Valley High’s Janae Granere and Piper…

Yates Center High’s dominance on the softball diamond did not go unnoticed this season. The Wildcats placed three players on the all-Three Rivers League first team for 2022. Only Northeast had as many all-league first-teamers.…

SALINA — The little things made a big difference Thursday. Iola High’s Mustangs, who had swept through regionals a week ago with some of their best baseball of the season, saw the tables turned in…

WICHITA — Iola High’s Jesse Taylor was among the first local athletes to get started Friday at the State Track Meet, as he placed ninth in the Class 4A boys 3200-meter run.  Taylor, a junior,…

Gov. Laura Kelly visits with Lisse Regehr, CEO of Thrive Allen County, at a fundraiser Thursday night at Perry’s in Humboldt. Kelly and her running mate, Lt. Gov. David Toland, hobnobbed with an estimated 75…

Larry Wittmer gave the Colony Christian Church Communion Meditation with some personal reflections about life and death, asking the questions: “What’s it like to die?” and “Am I doing God’s will?” God’s will for us…

TOPEKA — The Kansas unemployment rate hovered at 2.4% in April with more than 35,000 residents of the state searching for a job, state and federal officials said Friday. Preliminary estimates by the Kansas Department…

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ hometown of Whitehouse, Texas, is about 400 miles northeast of Uvalde — site of this week’s school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers.  That wasn’t the only…