Polly Barker remembers “dressing up like a spaceman” to treat HIV/AIDS patients in 1981, when she was a student nurse. Fear and uncertainty surrounded the new disease, and healthcare professionals took extra precautions with personal…

Allen Countians have done well to protect themselves from illness amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — mainly via social distancing and washing their hands frequently — Dr. Brian Wolfe said. The danger now is complacency,…

Dear editor, With this virus, social distancing is important. Here’s some tips that may help. Eat a lot of garlic. It’s good for you and people will stand back.  You could cook up a big…

Dear editor, As we look forward to celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior — Jesus Christ — this coming Sunday, I would like to take a few minutes to encourage everyone to take…

Allen County Rocks is a new public arts project asking for participation from the entire community, and is a visual statement that symbolizes how, together, we will endure through the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is…

“It looks so peaceful,” wife Beverly remarked one cloudy afternoon this week when we trundled from the end of a lane leading into Humboldt’s Mount Hope Cemetery. A few minutes earlier Beverly asked to take…

DENVER (AP) — It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling chorus of howls and screams that pierces the twilight…

The battle in Kansas over religious freedom and pandemic control grew more fierce Thursday, clashing over an executive order limiting religious services and funerals to 10 or fewer people.  Gov. Laura Kelly said she is…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas suspended on Friday sales of general nonresident turkey permits to prevent the spread of coronavirus. “During this unprecedented crisis, we must take every measure possible to protect Kansas lives,” Gov.…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a sign of humble obedience, Pope Francis prostrated himself for a few minutes on the floor of a nearly empty St. Peter’s Basilica in a Good Friday service, where the…