Month: September 2021
William “Bill” Elmer Sailor, 84, Nevada, Mo., died Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He was born July 3, 1937 in Elk City, to Elmer and Dorothy (Raney) Sailor. Survivors include…
Roland Mark Spillman, II, 59, of Moran, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. He was born Oct. 7, 1961 in Bayonne, N.J. to Roland and Jolienne (Hatcher) Spillman. He married Jenny on Feb. 20, 1988. Survivors…
Melanie Whitmore, 58, and Scott Whitmore, 62, of Topeka, passed away, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Melanie is the daughter of Paul and the late Saundra Upshaw of Iola. Visitation is from 5…
The building housing Westco furniture on North State Street will be restored, according to Tom Benton, a real estate developer and rancher out of Grand Junction, Colo. Benton owns the strip mall that includes the…
Carl Slaugh isn’t ready to give up. He believes it’s not too late to mend the relationship between the city and county when it comes to the ambulance service. Slaugh, a City Council member who…
Topeka’s White Lakes Mall is coming down. A time-worn eyesore, it’s past due. That the city has to cough up an estimated $2 million in demolition fees doesn’t sit well, of course. But the location…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A state education official said Wednesday that a Kansas middle school student has died of COVID-19. The child’s death would be the first reported COVID-19 death of someone aged 10 to…
Whatever tough-talking, populist-pandering nonsense Mark McCloskey tells voters in his U.S. Senate bid, the St. Louis personal injury lawyer pleaded guilty to a crime after recklessly wielding a gun at protesters marching peacefully past his…
HAYS — Kyle Carlin understands first-hand how hard a mental health crisis can hit in rural Kansas. He dealt with depression starting as a teenager. It eventually led him to attempt suicide. But he didn’t…
