Month: June 2018

Don Erbert is basking in his newfound fame. Erbert is all the buzz of the political blogosphere courtesy of his 42-year-old Jeep that carried GOP gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach through Saturday’s Old Shawnee Days Parade.…

Elsmore Alumni Association’s 84th celebration was May 26. Alumni and friends visited in the afternoon at the Elsmore Methodist Church and toured the remodeling of the Elsmore School. The evening banquet was at the Elsmore…

LEMOORE, Calif. — A 2011 Burlington High School graduate and Burlington native is serving with a U.S. Navy strike fighter squadron, which flies one of the world’s most advanced warplanes. Petty Officer 3rd Class Bret…

Area donors will be able to give blood Wednesday, while celebrating their Kansas City Royals fandom at the same time. The Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City will set up shop at Iola’s John…

The tangled story of Barbara Reese, an older woman who lost thousands of dollars to the Kansas Highway Patrol some 23 years ago, is enough to make a reader’s head spin. On one hand, Topeka…

Many Kansas farmers who voted for President Trump now know the pain of his agenda. Tariffs on imported steel and aluminum previously pursued by the president and directed at China hurt the heartland, as commodity…

The University of Kansas’ announcement that it will trim $20 million from its budget for the coming year demonstrates a renewed commitment to fiscal restraint that hasn’t always been apparent at the Lawrence campus. Though…

SAVONBURG — Savonburg Public Library is the recipient of the first Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS) Excellence Award. In nominating the Savonburg Library for the award, library trustee Marilyn Logan and Director Kathy Hale described…

During the recently completed Click It or Ticket Campaign, the Allen County Sheriff’s Office conducted overtime saturation patrols to aggressively enforce Kansas seat belt and other driving laws. During the campaign, officers wrote 165 seat…

Major League Baseball: Kansas City Royals SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks acquired outfielder Jon Jay in a trade with the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday in exchange for two minor league pitchers. With…