Month: February 2020

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Davide Moretti flinched as a pass the Texas Tech guard wasn’t expecting glanced off his back and bounced toward Kansas State’s Cartier Diarra. When Diarra tried to get too fancy with…

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A Florida woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the deaths of a Kansas couple who were killed after a carnival worker ordered their deaths as part of a fictitious “carnival…

SEATTLE — Sales of sugar-sweetened beverages at stores in Seattle dropped about 30.5% in the months after the city adopted a tax on such beverages, says a new study that also looked at sales at…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Through a year of campaigning, the Democratic presidential candidates played nice, talking up party unity, disagreeing mostly politely on policy. No more. Wednesday’s debate signaled a sharp turn in the Democratic contest,…

Rod Blagojevich emerged from prison and returned to the comforts of kith, kin and a microphone. Yep, there he was Wednesday, his first morning as a freed convict, freshly shaved and nicked by a sharp…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is mourning the death of a woman who was run over by a parade float as the city celebrates Mardi Gras. The woman apparently tried to cross between two…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two years after a crash left two sisters dead and three family members injured, the state of Kansas is suing the children’s parents and other parties for the cost of repairing…

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National…

CHICAGO — With 20 minutes to spare, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich landed in Chicago the same day his 14-year prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump, signing autographs at O’Hare International Airport as…

OSAWATOMIE — Luke Bycroft, head coach for the Iola Mustangs, knows he’s going to have to better prepare his boys for playing on the road. On Tuesday, the Mustangs lost by one point at Osawatomie,…