TOPEKA — The drive from Topeka to El Dorado Correctional Facility takes about two hours each way. Leoti Masterson makes the trip every week without hesitation. She would never pass up a chance to see…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — It can be hard to keep smiles healthy in rural areas, where dentists are few and far between and residents often are poor and lack dental coverage. Efforts to remedy the…

In their frustration last spring over the Kansas Senate’s refusal to discuss the expansion of Medicaid, a small group, including a Topeka minister, interrupted Senate proceedings with chants and hymns. Rather than endure the public…

Dear Carolyn: My mother conceived both my brother and me using a sperm donor. This information was never kept from us, and my mother has spoken openly about it throughout our lives. My stepdad adopted…

Even though LGBTQ youth are increasingly accepted in schools across America, many classrooms do shockingly little to teach young people just how hard activists have fought — and continue to fight— for the recognition that…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pete Alonso wasn’t even sure he was going to make the New York Mets’ opening day roster, so even he never could have imagined the incredible season he’s having. The…

Former Speaker of the U.S. House Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” He was referring specifically to congressional races, where responding to local issues from a national perspective — farm subsidy payments, Social…

Teresa Blanchard, 52, of Olathe, passed away Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Family will meet with friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Dengel & Son Mortuary. The family requests that…

MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — For the fifth time in the last six years, August on the PGA Tour means no more Tiger Woods for the rest of the season. Only now he’s healthy. He also…

MANHATTAN — Southwind Extension District 4-H members from Allen County competed Saturday in the State Horticulture Judging Contest at the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan. Participants were required to identify 50 plants, place eight…