Month: October 2018

A national, yet controversial, charter school movement intended to promote school choice and school reform has made its way rather quietly to Kansas. Currently, 11 charter schools operate within Kansas’ 286 public school districts.  Begun…

Dear editor, Good morning!! When I stepped out onto my porch to get my mail this morning, a flyer was in my mailbox. You might keep in mind, as you read this, that there was…

Late this summer, Charlotte Hornets rookie Miles Bridges asked his 238K followers on Instagram — particularly those living in his new city — for a favor: Could they recommend places to worship here? This is…

The Iola volleyball team ran into a freight train to start Sub-State play and unfortunately, their season did not survive. The 13-seed Fillies opened up postseason play with four seed and host Louisburg at the…

They may not have been dominant up top, but the Humboldt boys cross country team bunched together in the middle and placed third at the 2A Burlington regional tournament on Saturday, qualifying them as a…

The Humboldt volleyball team wrapped up its season on Saturday in the Sub-State championship versus one-seed St. Marys Colgan. The Cubs, who came into the tournament as the three-seed, end the year with a 24-12…

(AP) — The Kansas men’s basketball team is a comfortable No. 1 in the Associated Press preseason basketball poll released Monday. KU received 37 of 65 first-place votes, which easily outpaced second-place Kentucky when it…

With the Fall Classic going the full seven games the past two seasons, Joe Buck is preparing for Boston and Los Angeles to go the distance as well. “I’m asking for John Smoltz to get…

Patrick Mahomes, we know already, is a transformative phenomenon that the Chiefs never quite have had before. Even more happily, he’s the sort of soul-crushing presence some other guy, some nemesis or another, always seemed…

Just like any experienced thief, Elizabeth Donnelly had done her homework. She scoped out the scene ahead of time and planned her route. With only five minutes before the alarms would sound, Donnelly knew she…