EFFINGHAM, Kansas ? In 2014, a cash-strapped school district in rural northeast Kansas turned to its residents with a plea: Pay a little more in taxes annually so we can renovate classrooms, update the wiring…

It’s a moment of truth for Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky has won a landslide victory in the second round of Ukraine’s presidential election, vanquishing the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko. Most Ukrainians know Zelensky as a fictional TV…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The off-day and a temporary reset can’t get here soon enough for the Royals. Amidst the angst about the performance of the bullpen, the Tampa Bay Rays did the majority of…

Stop us if you’ve heard this before… Rainy weather wreaked havoc on the spring sports scene, especially in Iola, where home baseball, softball and track events were washed away before they got started. The only…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard hit a 37-footer at the buzzer and finished with career playoff-high 50 points to help the Portland Trail Blazers eliminate the Oklahoma City Thunder from the playoffs in five…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump made a new threat today to send armed soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted this morning that “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The U.S. had no prior knowledge of the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that killed over 350 people, the American ambassador said today, despite local claims that foreign officials had…

SEATTLE — Unable to reach agreement on a long-term contract with the Seattle Seahawks, defensive end Frank Clark is on his way out of town. The team’s best pass rusher in 2018, Clark was traded…

Two Kansas City area hospitals joined 12 other transplant centers this week in a lawsuit over a new liver allocation policy that they say will result in “hundreds of liver transplant candidates needlessly dying.” The…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly is creating an advisory committee that aims to ensure every person in Kansas is counted in the 2020 Census. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the governor signed an executive…