Month: July 2019

(Note: This is the first in a two-part series.) Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado. The national measles outbreak ? numbering more than 1,000 cases so far ? hasn?t hit Kansas yet, but it has crept awfully close…

(Note: This is the first in a two-part series.) Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado. The national measles outbreak ? numbering more than 1,000 cases so far ? hasn?t hit Kansas yet, but it has crept awfully close…

Marian (Rife) Thomas of Alamogordo, N.M., formerly of Sedalia, Mo., died Monday, June 24, 2019, at Gerald Chapman Hospital in Alamogordo. She was 88 years old. The daughter of Preston K. and Julia Rife, she…

COLONY — Colony Christian Church celebrated Youth Sunday with its weekly services. Ethan Prasko led Communion meditation. He reminisced about his experience with his baptism, and that we should remember the bread and juice are…

Early last week A Iola Indians head coach Troy Smith said his entire squad was going to be available for Friday’s doubleheader to face Emporia. They were, and Smith’s side made the most of it. …

HUMBOLDT — The Biblesta Committee will host its next meeting at 6:30 p.m. July 11, at the Von Humboldt Plaza Meeting Room, 410 S. Ninth St.

Former Colony resident Evelyn Wedeman will celebrate her 103rd birthday July 11. Cards for Wedeman can be sent to Parkview Heights, 101 N. Pine St., Garnett, KS 66032.

Apparently Senator Jerry Moran is the only Kansas Republican willing to stand up to Saudi Arabia. Last week, Moran joined six other Senate Republicans in backing a resolution against President Trump’s use of emergency powers…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran acknowledged today it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year…

OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump has agreed to restart trade talks with China and hold off new tariffs and certain restrictions on the star Chinese technology company Huawei, marking the latest ceasefire in his…