Month: March 2018

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — An executive with the Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy died on a giant waterslide has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Tyler Austin Miles, an operations director for Schlitterbahn,…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers on Thursday advanced the first piece of a plan to satisfy a state Supreme Court mandate on public school funding, a bill designed to make the distribution of education…

LAHARPE — LaHarpe City Council members unanimously voted to fire Police Chief Ashley Wright Thursday, two days following her arrest for interfering with law enforcement. Council members said nothing publicly — they discussed the matter…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending measure Friday, averting a midnight government shutdown just hours after declaring he was considering a veto. Trump said he was “very disappointed” in the…

The Moran Herald, Moran’s official newspaper for the first half of the 20th century, was like most others of that era, filled with local items of varying levels of newsworthiness, club reports and other bits…

A portion of the Prairie Spirit Trail in north Iola is being converted from asphalt to limestone screenings because of ongoing cracking issues with the asphalt. Here, city crews use a trackhoe to pry up…

A mixture of low clouds and the rising sun creates a picturesque backdrop for the Register’s illuminated American flag Friday morning. REGISTER/WHITNEY IKEHORN

Daren Baldwin, manager of Iola’s bicycle shop, Velo+, sees cycling as a way to connect people. And he hopes the shop’s recent move to a downtown storefront will lead to more connections between the business,…

Lena C. Thummel, age 88, of Iola, passed away on Monday, March 19, 2018, at Greystone Residential Care, Iola. She was born Nov. 23, 1929, in Plainville, the daughter of Luke and Anna Elizabeth (Eilers)…

Kansas sophomore center Udoka Azubuike played 22 minutes in the Jayhawks’ second-round NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional victory over Seton Hall on Saturday after toiling 3 minutes in Thursday’s first-round clash versus Penn. So how many…