Tag: officials

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has moved to fire several senior White House National Security Council officials taking action soon after he was urged by far-right activist Laura Loomer to purge staffers she deemed…

MORAN — Friday’s high school basketball games between host Marmaton Valley and Yates Center may have seemed routine at first blush. But it marked an opportunity of a lifetime for Iolan Mark Kauth and sons…

OSWEGO — Christmas came early for 22 daycare providers in Labette County when city and county officials joined forces to give them each $2,500, according to the Parsons Sun. The idea began when Labette County…

TOPEKA — A Kansas lawmaker known for pushing discredited treatments for people with COVID-19 urged a bill Thursday pumped from the same vein: An attempt to strip state health officials of their authority to fight…

Democratic Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew spent weeks preparing volunteers to serve at polling places for the recent local elections in Kansas.At the county’s election offices in Lawrence, about a dozen people gathered to get…

As leaders from 17 Southeast Kansas counties descended on Iola Thursday for a regional meeting of public officials, they faced road construction from three of the four directions heading into town. That might have been…

Everyone wants to be the bearer of good news. But these days the pickings are slim if you happen to be a public health officer.  Rebecca Johnson, director of the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department,…

The next time you see a commercial declaring a new era at Wells Fargo, or the next time you hear a Wells executive touting a new culture, remember Stan and Melissa West. The Wests were…

 (By Karissa Niehoff, Executive Director of the National Federation of State High School Associations and Bill Faflick, Executive Director of the Kansas State High School Activities Association.)   If you are the mother or father…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL will consider expanding replay reviews to include certain penalties, including pass interference. Two people with direct knowledge of the NFL’s plans tell The Associated Press that the league’s competition…