Month: August 2019
Last spring, Damaris Kunkler wanted to visit with daughter Elysia, a crackerjack track performer for Iola High School, during a track meet at Humboldt. She walked across the infield and approached a covey of orange-and-black-clad…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Sixth-generation Kansas farmer Charles Atkinson said the millions of dollars in trade aid the federal government has funneled to local farmers doesnt fully make up for what growers have lost…
A fire engulfed a home at 2930 Cedarbrook on Tuesday evening, leaving a family of six displaced. Robert Holding owns the home that he and Chantel Catron share. Combined, they have four children. The fire…
YATES CENTER ? As the mother of two school-aged children, Shannon Culver is well aware of the stress parents face when getting their youngsters ready for the upcoming school year. It was a brief conversation…
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) The day that Patrick Mahomes checked into Scanlon Hall on the campus of Missouri Western for the start of training camp, he was greeted by Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy…
KANSAS CITY, KAN. Susan Haynes used to have panic attacks seven times a day. Sometimes, she would fall out of her chair. Sometimes, she would stop breathing. I could just fall down, just collapse…
Last Friday, Allen County Special Olympics took to the bowling alley to compete in the Strikes and Spikes Games held at Olathe East Lanes. Although it is still the summertime, this is event is considered…
WASHINGTON (AP) More than 200 mayors, including two anguished by mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, are urging the Senate to return to the Capitol to act on gun safety legislation amid criticism that…
BOSTON (AP) Ned Yost had better things to do than return to Boston to finish a suspended game. The Kansas City Royals manager, whose team is 29½ games out in the AL Central, would…
A dizzy nation that reads less than it should, and does so in increasingly short bursts, must breathe deeply and absorb the passing of a woman whose words over five decades have captured the tragic,…
