Month: October 2018

In an on-the-record interview last month, in which one other person plus a digital recorder were present, Brandon Griffith described for this reporter the details of his service in the United States Navy. During the…

“Mamma Mia!,” the most ambitious, fully realized, light-filled production to adorn the Bowlus stage in a long while, begins its three-day run tonight at 7:30. The jukebox musical, a rare collaboration between the Allen Community…

LAHARPE ? Back when LaHarpe still had a school, and more businesses around town, it made sense for the community to have the number of stop signs it does. But now, with the school long…

Area school districts expected to see fewer students roaming the halls this year in the face of a declining population trend in southeast Kansas. For the most part, those expectations played out. The lone exception…

MORAN — Non-teaching staff, including bus drivers and administrators, in the Marmaton Valley school district can expect a raise, approved by USD 256 board members at their meeting Monday evening. Classified staff will receive a…

Kansas schools are still struggling to hire teachers. There are more than 600 vacant teaching positions in Kansas, nearly 100 more than in the fall of 2017. Special education and elementary positions have the largest number…

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Search-and-rescue teams fanned out across the Florida Panhandle to reach trapped people in Michael’s wake today after the third-most powerful hurricane on record to hit the continental U.S. carved a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge in one of Paul Manafort’s criminal cases threw a wrench today into special counsel Robert Mueller’s plans for the former Trump campaign chairman’s cooperation. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III…

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A booster rocket failed less than two minutes after launching an American and a Russian toward the International Space Station today, forcing their emergency — but safe — landing on the…

Humboldt volleyball may have made the breakthrough that they’ve been looking for all season Tuesday night when they traveled to Cherryvale and beat both the Lady Chargers and Eureka. The wins move them to 18-9…