Month: August 2019

The school year is now officially underway, and athletes at Iola High are looking to grow the brand of Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) on campus.  FCA’s goal is to unite faith and athletics. FCA…

WASHINGTON — Republican political donors have been told to hold off contributing to the 2020 U.S. Senate race in Kansas in the expectation that Secretary of State Michael Pompeo may decide to run, according to…

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs needed a playmaking safety and signed coveted free agent Tyrann Mathieu. They needed help at cornerback and signed Bashaud Breeland and Morris Claiborne. They had to…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Les Miles has plenty of experience taking over floundering Big 12 football programs. Oklahoma State was coming off three straight losing seasons when he arrived in Stillwater for the 2001 season,…

TOPEKA — Aetna remains in hot water with the state of Kansas, which recently threatened to cancel the company’s Medicaid contract. In late July, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment gave Aetna Better Health…

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Sports Illustrated is celebrating college football’s 150th season by ranking the top 10 all-time greatest mascots, putting the University of Georgia’s bulldog in first place. The magazine includes both real and…

Kansas City, Kansas, police shot and killed a man on Tuesday who told a hotel manager that he had killed his wife and was heading to a popular shopping and restaurant area. The “very angry…

A tentative contract deal between the Wichita school district and service workers includes a new incentive for employees who work at some of the district’s most challenging schools — Greiffenstein, Wells, Sowers and Gateway. Custodians,…

As scientists watch the world’s ice melt away, predict sea level rises, and sound the alarm about climate change, they have been struggled to demonstrate a direct link between that and human activity, at least…

The Trump administration is moving — again — to make it more difficult for even legal immigrants to get a foothold in the United States. Beginning in October, a new rule will make immigrants who…