Month: April 2018

The Associated Press Hey, here’s something we haven’t heard before. The NBA playoffs are wide open. At perhaps no other time in the league’s history have so many teams gone into the postseason with a…

Even cows parachute out of airplanes. It’s quite a sight, 1st Lt. Andy Timmick and 1st Lt. Morgan Moxley, told students in Bill Shirley’s Current World Affairs class at Allen Community College Tuesday. Both serve…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens calls it an “entirely consensual relationship.” But the woman with whom he has acknowledged having an affair says Greitens spanked, slapped, grabbed and shoved her during…

HUMBOLDT — Scott Murrow’s resignation Monday creates a vacancy on the USD 257 board of education. Murrow resigned to lead the Humboldt High School’s building trades program. Murrow’s term expires the first of 2019. The…

LAHARPE — Residents will no longer be able to deposit limbs and brush at the east edge of the LaHarpe City Park. City Council members voted unanimously Wednesday to do away with the brush pile,…

Kansas Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer wants lawmakers to fix a costly mistake in the school finance bill passed after midnight on the last day of the regular session. “It needs to be taken care of,”…

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of the 31st Judicial District and Hope Unlimited sponsored a variety of activities to recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month in April. CASA volunteers planted “Pinwheels of Prevention” gardens at the…

MORAN — The Marmaton Valley High School Junior-Senior Prom is April 21. The public will get a chance to greet prom-goers at 5:30 p.m. along the high school’s south entrance along Oak Street. The grand…

MORAN — Five Marmaton Valley Future Business Leaders of America chapter members attended the State FBLA Conference March 28-29 at the Topeka Expo Center. The conference consisted of the students participating in business-oriented competitions against…

Marmaton Valley Elementary School students qualified to attend the final Allen County Young Authors program April 21 in Iola. Students wrote books and 34 finalists in grades 1-6 were selected to attend the program. This…