Month: April 2021

In their eagerness to pass tax cuts, Kansas Republicans are choosing to ignore that the federal government just passed one of its own. On Tuesday, the Kansas Department of Revenue broke the news that state…

More than a few fielding misadventures gave Fillies fans a headache Friday. Iola High’s softball team was charged with seven errors, allowing host Chanute to score six runs — all unearned — in a 6-2…

ARKANSAS   CITY — Allen Community College’s return to the diamond carried a dramatic flair Saturday. The Red Devils, coming off a 13-day quarantine because of COVID-19 protocols, rallied for two runs in the top…

When President Joe Biden agreed with a newscaster that Vladimir Putin was “a killer,” I initially thought it a tactical error. Not that the Russian leader isn’t a killer, having sent agents to murder dissidents…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Now comes the hard part for Gonzaga.  Less than 16 hours after walking off the floor with one of the most scintillating wins in the game’s history, the barely-still-undefeated Bulldogs returned to…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tara VanDerveer hugged each of her Stanford players as they climbed the ladder to cut down the nets, capping a taxing whirlwind journey and ending an exhausting championship drought for the…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s proposal to invest $2 trillion in American infrastructure and climate change efforts also aims to reverse a more than decade-long decline in federal spending on science, research and development, and…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The next month in the Missouri Capitol may represent one of the last gasps in the Republican fight against Obamacare. Missouri, which has Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate, has…

NEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics — including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly breach of the Capitol’s perimeter could delay the gradual reopening of the building’s grounds to the public just as lawmakers were eyeing a return to more normal security measures following…