Month: April 2018

Allen County commissioners granted two of five applicants economic development assistance Tuesday, and then disbanded the committee recently formed to review applications. To date, the committee had rejected all applications. The Regional Technology Center outside…

Construction of new ambulance stations in Moran and Humboldt inched closer Tuesday morning. Allen County commissioner agreed to pay an architectural firm $3,150 to provide conceptual drawings. One set will be all that’s necessary, said…

BEIJING (AP) — China today issued a $50 billion list of U.S. goods including soybeans and small aircraft for possible tariff hikes in an escalating and potentially damaging technology dispute with Washington. The country’s tax…

The Kansas House has had its say on school finance — putting the ball in the Senate’s court. But Senate leaders say they won’t move forward on increasing K-12 funding to satisfy the Kansas Supreme…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the civil rights leader’s family and admirers will mark the anniversary of his death with marches, speeches and quiet reflection…

Frederick Joseph “Fred” Hart, age 77, of Iola, passed away Saturday, March 31, 2018, at Windsor Place, Iola. Fred was born on Sept. 15, 1940, in Preston, Mo., to Sherman Edgar Hart, Sr. and Mabel…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s former governor, now arguing as a private attorney, urged the state’s highest court on Tuesday to overturn a decision blocking a proposed 780-mile power line that would carry wind…

MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico (AP) — President Donald Trump’s angry comments about a caravan of migrants ricochet around like a soccer ball in the dusty athletic complex in southern Mexico where the 1,000 or so Central…

“Stepping On,” a strength, balance and fall-prevention class sponsored by the Southeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging, will run from 10 a.m. to noon each Tuesday at the Io-cal Senior Center, 204 N. Jefferson Ave.…

852-3379 Calendar April 11-Rural Water District No. 5 board meeting, Board Office, 8 p.m.; 12-Community Bingo, City Hall Community Room, 7 p.m. School calendar Saturday-Prom; Monday-baseball/softball at Crest vs. Jayhawk Linn; Crest Board meeting, Board…