By the Register staff With Valentine’s Day around the corner, the Register is sponsoring a  love story contest.  We’re looking for romantic, funny, sad or disastrous love stories out there. It could be your own…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A faster-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom is probably more widespread in Kansas than a single confirmed case in the state’s northwest suggests, officials with a major health…

Allen County officially topped more than 1,000 COVID-19 cases this week, as new cases appeared to subside slightly. The county has now reported 1,016 positive cases since the start of the pandemic. Fourteen county residents…

Cortland Carson’s baseline jumper with 25 seconds left propelled Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade basketball team to a 21-19 victory over visiting Santa Fe Trail Thursday. Carson’s tie-breaking shot capped a memorable second half, in which…

Whitney Shaw compared her Allen Community College volleyball squad to a giant puzzle. “We’re 99.9 percent there,” the Red Devil head coach said. “We had stretches where we did really good stuff.” Alas, a few…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden met Friday with leading House Democrats who aim to put his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package on a fast track to becoming law, drawing on new signs of strain…

In the Kansas City Chiefs-Arizona Cardinals game that 2018 afternoon, the coach’s quarterback was handpicked for greatness — the 10th selection in the National Football League Draft — with a right hand blessed with a…

YATES CENTER — Yates Center High’s girls cranked up their defensive intensity and pulled out a win Thursday, despite struggling mightily on the offensive end. The Wildcats trailed 7-1 after one quarter, then proceeded to…

Allen County school districts received $50,000 stipends Tuesday from the Prairie Queen Wind Farm. The schools, as well as the Regional Rural Technical Center in LaHarpe and the county itself, can expect similar gifts for…

Somberly, one by one, officers in uniform came to the precise center of the historic white-domed Capitol Rotunda. Slowly, on Wednesday, each officer saluted the colleague who had fought to preserve democracy for us all.…