When I was very young, my parents worked as night janitors at a law firm in Los Angeles. They often took me to work because they couldn’t afford child care, and to keep my grumpiness…

Yellowstone National Park has started capturing bison migrating outside the park and will hold them in pens for possible slaughter as part of a population reduction program, officials said Monday.  The annual operation began Sunday…

Frank B. Goddard, age 87, passed away Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 at Andover Court Assisted Living.  Frank was born Aug. 14, 1932 to Floyd and Esther (Watts) Goddard in Anthony. He graduated from Anthony High…

The author of the current Iola Reads book selection, Michael Graves, will be in Iola on March 12. Graves will speak at 7 p.m. in the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.…

Yates Center High School’s Madelyn Collins and Reece Solander were crowned 2020 Homecoming Queen and King Friday. Chaperones were Hadley Heffner, front at left, and Kade Owens.

The threat of a coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak isn’t a point-in-time political exigency; it’s one of what we know will be a series of episodic public health challenges. Responding to these challenges will take more than…

MORAN — The Marmaton Lodge No. 245 will host a soup and chili feed from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Moran Community Building. Raffle tickets for a $185 meat bundle and $100 in…

PHILADELPHIA — Hoping that we make it to warmer weather before the coronavirus possibly arrives in the United States in force? Don’t bother, scientists say. Unlike with the seasonal flu, the change of seasons may…

To the 76 Catholic nuns who signed a letter urging the Kansas Legislature to pass Medicaid expansion, we say, thank you for your courage. In the letter, the nuns say it is “deeply immoral” for…

Dear Dr. Roach: My wife went blind in her left eye suddenly last October, and a biopsy showed temporal arteritis. She was started on high-dose prednisone, and after four weeks they lowered the dosage. Her…