Month: September 2019
A community play group filled with games, stories, educational activities and free dental screenings, is open to any child 6 years and younger Friday morning on the Allen County Courthouse lawn. The event is sponsored…
Did you hear the bells ring at noon on Tuesday? Sept. 17 is Constitution Day and the Cofachique Chapter DAR contacted churches in Iola, Humboldt and Chanute to ring their bells at noon in commemoration.…
TOPEKA This was supposed to be the year Medicaid expansion finally happened in Kansas. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, elected in November, had run on the issue. She triumphed in a state that had gone for…
WASHINGTON The push by some Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump has been marked by false starts, semantic debates and legal roadblocks. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the first House Judiciary Committee hearing in the hotly contested…
As trauma surgeons with more than 60 years of collective experience caring for victims of firearm violence, we have struggled as our patients many of them children died or were permanently disabled from preventable…
58 Years Ago September 1961 Dr. George F. DeTar, 32, Joplin, will open an office in Dr. Gerald Pees building at 219 W. Madison. He has practiced in Joplin for the past two years but…
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China should be filtering down to pork producers, but another development is easing the blow while injecting uncertainty into the industry. China slapped tariffs of 50 percent on American…
COLLEGE STATION, Texas ? A colony of golden retrievers and Labrador mixes lives in an unmarked building at Texas A&M. Few Aggies will ever see them, and many of the dogs will never know another…
Dear Carolyn: My friend Kathy is like a sister to me and would do anything for me. Her only problem is that she is really impulsive and has a bad temper. Last weekend, my boyfriend…
Dear Dr. Roach: Im an 81-year-old man. About two years ago, I began to realize that my testicles were shrinking, and they are now about the size of a marble. I have asked my primary…
