Month: May 2019
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas lawmakers who support expanding Medicaid blocked passage of the next state budget Friday in a high-stakes standoff designed to force the Legislature’s conservative Republican leaders to allow an expansion plan…
Jennifer Tidd remembers a day in 2012 when she brought home ice cream for her mom. She was in fifth grade and her mother, Julie, was receiving hospice care at home. About a month later,…
Members of the Iola High School robotics class gave a demonstration Thursday of their robots in a simulated competition. The Vex Robotics can be programmed to run a course or can be manually controlled with…
Life in Iola of 80 years ago will be featured at Tuesdays spring meeting of the Allen County Historical Society. The meetings centerpiece is an 18-minute video, a 1940 colorized 16-millimeter film that recently has…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas lawmakers who support expanding Medicaid blocked passage of the next state budget Friday in a high-stakes standoff designed to force the Legislatures conservative Republican leaders to allow an expansion plan…
ORLANDO, Fla. Maybe it just needed a deep conditioning. An alligator gave staff and patrons of a Florida hair salon a scare Tuesday when it showed up on the sidewalk outside the strip-mall business. Officers…
Twenty-five years ago May 1994 2 Flooding occurred Thursday after five to eight inches of rain fell, damaging nearly every road in the county. 3 MORAN USD 256 Board of Education members…
Judy Marie OBrien, age 72, of Garnett, died Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at St. Francis Hospital, in Topeka. She was born on July 29, 1946, in Iola, to Homer Julius and Marie Alice (Miller) Smethers. …
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A health department in southwest Kansas says a prankster spoofed its number to falsely notify people that they may have contracted a sexually transmitted disease. The Finney County Health Department said…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Freshman Republican Congressman Steve Watkins of Kansas has forgiven $225,100 in loans he made to his 2018 campaign, according to a letter filed with the Federal Election Commission. The Kansas…
