HUMBOLDT — Since The Growing Place Childcare Center & Preschool opened in Humboldt in 2005, its leaders kept a sort of “wish list” of improvements. An indoor play area — where kids could run around…

Long after I had crossed the Kimbell Ranch with its vast open sky, stretching and swelling with enormous oceanic depths, the experience stayed with me. After I had seen the expanse of the Rhea Brush,…

Another virus is infecting the world in the wake of COVID-19 and it is hitting the United States with particular virulence. A plague of conspiracy theories is attacking scientific facts about the pandemic, and replacing…

MANHATTAN — The Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate agreed in a live-streamed Saturday morning debate that they want to do all they can for the president and his policies. They differed mostly on who…

Arrests reported Allen County sheriff’s deputies arrested James W. Shaw, 44, Iola, Monday for suspicion of aggravated battery with a vehicle and driving while suspended. Iola police officers Monday arrested Orion C. Nicholas, 20, LaHarpe,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange reopened for the first time in two months today, but its controlled chaos is more subdued. The floor, known worldwide for an…

It’s as if a powerful squall line blew through Kansas overnight. By dawn’s early light it was time to assess the damage. That’s the feeling left by the Kansas Legislature’s wholly unnecessary end-of-session 24-hour marathon,…

Matt Percy, a member of Park University’s golf team, has been named to the 2020 All-Conference First Team in the American Midwest Conference, and an academic all-conference award winner. Percy is the son of Mark…

MINNEAPOLIS — Mark Graves sat in his car in the parking lot at Phelps Park in south Minneapolis on a recent afternoon, looking out at an empty basketball court, one that normally would be bustling…

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Brad Keselowski has won the Southern 500, the Bristol night race, the Brickyard 400 and has now crossed the Coca-Cola 600 off his checklist of crown jewel victories. Chase Elliott lost…