Month: June 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players proposed a 70-game regular-season schedule Thursday, a plan immediately rejected by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred with the sides 10 games and about $275 million apart on plans to start…

Bradley Beal grabbed a microphone and asked the crowd that joined the Washington Wizards and WNBA’s Washington Mystics on a march to collectively raise a fist into the air and join together in saying “Together…

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — More than a century after the arrival of the railroads to the Flint Hills of Kansas, a large-scale track expansion is tearing up a scenic stretch in some of the…

A group of black Major League Soccer players has formed a coalition that seeks to address racial inequities in the league and across soccer, and to positively impact local communities. The coalition is the result…

The NCAA on Friday expanded its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its sponsored events, one day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag. The…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A traditional day of celebration turned into one of protest Friday, as Americans marked Juneteenth, a holiday that long commemorated the emancipation of enslaved African Americans but that burst into the…

DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed: Jennifer R. Peters vs. Bryan D. Peters, divorce Destiny L. Burney vs. Nathaniel Burney, divorce Ray W. Miller vs. Edie Miller, divorce MAGISTRATE COURT Judge Tod Davis…

Iolan arrested Iola police officers arrested Iolan Donald Hefferd for suspicion of domestic battery Saturday afternoon in the 300 block of South Second Street. Utility pole struck Danny J. Oswalt, 69, was traveling through Riverside…

David M. Tetreault, age 73, died Tuesday, June 16, 2020, at Allen County Regional Hospital.  He was born Nov. 29, 1946, to Andrew and June (Reister) Tetreault in Concord, N.H.  He served in the United…

The number of positive coronavirus cases in Kansas increased to 12,059 Friday, as reported by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. That’s a 3% increase over Thursday’s total of 11,681. That number includes 254…