Month: April 2018

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica have harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets. Researchers…

Junior College Baseball: Allen County Red Devils The Allen County baseball team finished off its series with Ottawa University’s junior varsity squad on Tuesday splitting the first half of the series 10-2 and 10-13 but…

High School Track and Field: Marmaton Valley The Marmaton Valley girls opened up the 2018 track season with a second place finish at the Oswego meet on Tuesday. The Wildcats scored 102 team points which…

A 200-plus crowd, including a strong contingent from Iola, participated in a rally to expand Medicaid Tuesday at the state capitol. It’s the same song, umpteenth verse since 2014 to provide approximately 150,000 low-income Kansans…

A substantial segment — though perhaps no longer a majority — of Kansas legislators are still determined to stiff-arm the Supreme Court over school finance. Their dual track strategy of passive and aggressive ploys are…

Don’t worry, coffee-addled Americans: You and your morning ritual are safe. Despite a Los Angeles judge’s ruling that in California coffee must carry a warning label, there’s little cause for concern. California’s Proposition 65 labeling…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is dramatically scaling back U.S. goals in Syria as he pushes for a quick military withdrawal, Trump administration officials said Wednesday, abandoning plans to stay long-term to stabilize the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Face-book revealed Wednesday that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal than previously thought and said it will restrict the user data that…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two top Republican legislators in Kansas on Wednesday dropped a demand that lawmakers move to curb judges’ power before increasing spending on public schools, allowing work to move forward on satisfying…

College Basketball: Kansas Jayhawks LAWRENCE, Kan. — Malik Newman has played his last game for the Kansas basketball team. Newman, a 6-foot-3 red-shirt sophomore guard from Jackson, Miss., who was KU’s best player during the…