Month: January 2020
Allen County commissioners voted to deny themselves a raise at their meeting Tuesday. Commissioner Bruce Symes said that was the intention of commissioners when they set the budget last summer, but had yet to make…
Authorities are still searching for three suspects believed to have led police on a car chase in Woodson and Allen counties before crashing in a rural area in northern Allen County. Officers remain on the…
MORAN Principal Kim Ensminger, a 22-year educator at Marmaton Valley USD 256, has been named the districts next superintendent of schools. Ensminger replaces Kenneth McWhirter, who is retiring at the end of the school…
WASHINGTON (AP) A major U.S. web infrastructure and security company will provide free support to federal election campaigns to help thwart any repeats of the 2016 effort by Russian agents to steal and leak…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Rival Kansas Senate candidates Kris Kobach and Rep. Roger Marshall have talked to President Donald Trump, with Marshall looking to boost his chances of defeating Trumps earliest prominent supporter in the…
Freda Maxine Dreher, age 88, of Iola, passed away Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola. Maxine was born June 29, 1931, in Kincaid, to Willie Paul and Zella (Adams) Brooks. …
Brennon Christopher Hilton, 22, of Victoria, Texas, passed away on Nov. 19, 2019 in an auto accident. He was born on Jan. 22, 1997, in Hays, to Terri Hilton. He grew up in Hays and…
Charlie Jim McEndree, age 64, of rural Elsmore, died on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 at his home. He was born on January 16, 1955 in Iola, to Elmer and Ruth (Jackson) McEndree. He married Melodee…
Linda Lou Minkler, age 72, of Kincaid, died on Jan. 11, 2020, at Saint Lukes Hospice House, Kansas City, Mo. She was born Oct. 3, 1947 in Fort Scott, to Gerald Jerry and Vera Brown. …
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Moodys Investors Service announced that it is downgrading the debt rating for Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. to junk-bond status after the major supplier of fuselages for Boeings troubled 737 Max announced massive…
