Month: September 2019

CHICAGO (AP) — Kansas City manager Ned Yost believed Jorge Soler would be a great hitter when the Royals traded for the slugger before the 2017 season. Soler is proving Yost right. Soler hit a…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times says Justify won the 2018 Triple Crown after a failed postrace drug test at a California track that could have kept the horse out of the Kentucky…

So now that it’s been documented that vaping is dangerous to your health, the next step to follow is for health insurance companies to charge more for those who take up the nasty habit.  …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will act to ban thousands of flavors used in e-cigarettes, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, responding to a recent surge in underage vaping that has alarmed parents, politicians and…

“The president needs to step up here and set some guidelines for what he would do,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The subject was gun control, and the choice…

The Congressional Budget Office is sounding alarms, but it’s unclear whether anyone is listening. This year, the budget deficit will likely hit $960 billion — nearly a trillion. Over the next decade, the deficit is…

LONDON (AP) — The British government insisted today that its forecast of food and medicine shortages, gridlock at ports and riots in the streets after a no-deal Brexit is an avoidable worst-case scenario, as Prime…

The Allen County Sheriff’s department responded to a report of a mountain lion on the Southwind Rail Trail just north of Humboldt just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Sheriff Bryan Murphy said the department received…

Robert (Bob) L. Maxwell, age 83, of Humboldt died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, at his home. He was born in Primrose, Neb., on July 18, 1936, to Robert and Meta Nuerenberger Maxwell.   He served…

John Wall, age 67, of Iola, passed away on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at his home. John was born on Sept. 18, 1952, at Hoisington. John was the fifth of five children born to Howard…