When Martin “Sully” Sullivan and Lynsey “Tilly” Brown crossed the Atlantic Ocean to attend the wedding of Lynsey’s son, Cameron Simpson, they never dreamed they’d become permanent residents, but thanks to COVID-19 and the charm…

A 44-year reunion in the making is now a reality for Becky Carlson. The former Iola High girls basketball coach will be taking over the reins at her alma mater Marmaton Valley next season.  “I’m…

MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed arms control and other issues Friday as Moscow has signaled readiness to include some of its latest nuclear weapons…

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas sophomore David McCormack will return to school for his junior year instead of entering the 2020 NBA draft, he announced Thursday. McCormack, 6-10, 265-pound power forward from Norfolk, Va., averaged 6.9…

LOS ANGELES — In 1998, on the home stretch of his sitcom’s final season, Jerry Seinfeld submitted to a court-side interview about the era’s premier sporting dynasty. “The similarity between ‘Seinfeld’ and the Bulls?” he…

COVID-19 is reminding us that many mundane aspects of governing actually matter, and that leaving unglamorous problems insufficiently addressed can come back to bite us. The information technology (IT) problems facing the Kansas Department of…

“Did I Shave my Legs for This?” -— Deanna Carter, 1995 debut album It wasn’t my legs, but my head that I recently had shorn as free of hair as Kojak’s. The purpose was to…

On the door by the water fountain is a sticky note I recently received from Maude Burns.  It reads, “Thanks to all of you for hanging in there to furnish a good hometown paper.”  I’m…

COLONY — Organizers of the Colony/Crest Alumni Reunion have canceled the 2020 reunion, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Alumni officers said the decision to cancel the May 30 event rather than postpone it was…

HIAWATHA, Kan. (AP) — A woman died in a rural northeastern Kansas house fire, officials said.  The fire was reported around 3 a.m. Thursday in Brown County, Wichita station KSNW reported. A family member told…