MORAN — When Marmaton Valley High School’s baseball players take the field this season, they’ll do so as Eagles. The respective boards of education at Marmaton Valley and Uniontown school districts agreed this week to…

The problems with an online app that led to an embarrassing delay in tabulating the results of the Iowa caucus votes for Democratic presidential candidates should serve as a not-so-subtle reminder that online voting is…

Crest High School will crown its 2020 Winter Homecoming king and queen Friday. 

Ronald “Ron” Dean Moore, 69, of Humboldt, passed away at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020.  In honor of his wishes, Ron will be cremated and a memorial service will take…

COLONY — The Crest Lancers put to bed a five-game losing streak with a 44-35 win over Hartford.  For head coach Travis Hermreck, it wasn’t pretty, but he’ll take it.  “It was an ugly win…

The February meeting of the Square B 4-H club was held Monday at the Allen County Courthouse. There were two guests at the meeting. The flag salute and the 4-H Pledge were led by Drake…

Call it a ban on plastic bag bans. A new bill introduced this week in the Kansas House Commerce Committee would pre-emptively prevent state municipalities from enacting their own bans or taxes on plastic items,…

A recent column in the Wall Street Journal characterized Pete Buttigieg’s military service as a half-effort. After all, Buttigieg’s 2009-2017 stint in the Navy Reserves included only seven months in Afghanistan and he never was…

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is considering expanding the playoffs to nearly half the 30 teams and allowing higher-seeded wild-card teams to choose opponents. The playoffs would grow from 10 clubs to 14…

(AP) — The proportion of people in families struggling to pay medical bills is down, but the number isn’t dropping like it used to, according to a big government study.  In a 2018 national survey,…