Month: January 2020

PLEASANTON — As the saying goes, speed kills. Size can do some damage, too. Humboldt High’s boys utilized both with devastating efficiency Tuesday, with a lopsided win of historic proportions. The Cubs opened the Pleasanton…

LAHARPE ? Windows make for happy houseplants. The plants at TLC Greenhouse soon will be just a little bit happier, courtesy of a new building and two new greenhouses that give them more sunlight and…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Third-ranked Kansas and Kansas State ended their bitter showdown Tuesday night with a wild melee in the disabled seating behind the Wildcats’ basket that included punches, shoving and at least one…

Gerald Edward Luttrell, 73, of Pittsburg, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Gerald was born Oct. 18, 1946, in Iola, to Charles and Mae (Wartick) Luttrell.…

TAMPA, Fla. — It wasn’t pretty and it took a banked-in shot or two, but the Wichita State men’s basketball team ended its two-game slide with a 56-43 victory over South Florida on Tuesday at…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conservative Republican lawmakers are looking to modify a bipartisan plan for expanding Medicaid in Kansas by adding two provisions that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly opposes. GOP conservatives want to insert a…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Clark Hunt remembers well the celebrations four years ago that surrounded the golden anniversary of the Super Bowl, the championship game whose name was coined by his late father and…

WICHITA, Kansas ? About 150,000 people in Kansas get their drinking water from private wells. How clean, and safe, is that water? Short answer: It depends. But new research suggests those wells deliver water tainted…

DIGHTON, Kan. (AP) — A western Kansas sheriff’s deputy shot and wounded a fleeing motorist after he attempted to carjack another vehicle when two of his tires were flattened A Ness County Sheriff’s deputy attempted…

WASHINGTON — In an overtly partisan start to the third presidential impeachment trial in American history, Senate Republicans on Tuesday repeatedly brushed aside Democratic proposals to subpoena witnesses and documents, and appeared on track to…