Month: July 2020

Dear Carolyn: Our 85-year old Dad has an awful girlfriend of less than a year, who just moved in with him. She met everyone at a holiday gathering last year and made a number of…

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins scrambled for roster replacements as they coped with a coronavirus outbreak. The New York Yankees had an unscheduled day off in Philadelphia while the home team underwent COVID-19 tests.…

Perhaps it’s fitting that a high school musical delayed four months by a global pandemic should focus on the paradoxical nature of life and love: how we find the balance between what’s safe and what’s…

River Hess said he would have been happy winning a prize for “Best Puppet Design” at the long-delayed and scaled down Little Oscars event Friday evening.  Spoiler alert: He didn’t win that category. But he…

The 127th annual Allen County Fair proved one final time how unique this year has been, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual livestock auction wrapped up the 2020 Fair, with only a fraction of…

Undaunted by the threat of COVID-19, the 2020 4-H goat show was a rousing success, with young people across multiple age groups excitedly showing off all the hard work they’d put into their animals. Shelby…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus — making him the highest-ranking official to test positive so far. That’s according to two people familiar with the situation…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Carlos Carrasco looked toward home plate and clutched the ball in his right hand before firing a 95 mph fastball on the game’s first pitch. It was a beginning and an ending.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Murtice Sherek is not excited about Joe Biden. The Minnesota Democrat, a 79-year-old retired nurse, preferred another candidate in the presidential primary. She also worries about Biden’s age, 77. But anxious about another four…

Brenda Kay Buck, age 62, passed away Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.  Brenda was born Sept. 28, 1957 in Iola, to Norman and Betty (Burris) Michael. She graduated…