The Big 12 survived college football’s last significant conference realignment a decade ago because the league still had Texas and Oklahoma.  With the pending move of its only national championship winners to the Southeastern Conference…

USD 257’s website is posting twice-weekly updates on COVID-19 numbers and quarantines in the district.

TOPEKA — School districts across the state independently reported hundreds of infections of COVID-19 among students and staff in the first two weeks of school, while the state’s official ledger showed just two small outbreaks.…

CHANUTE — After conferring with a committee of local health officials and a drop in attendance due to COVID-19, Chanute’s superintendent of schools Kellen Adams brought back a face mask mandate for District 413 students,…

A thread running through many dictatorships is leaders’ total certainty that they know what’s best for people. With a monopoly on political power, control over the use of force and dominance over communications, they impose…

Dr. Kelly Woestman, a professor of history at Pittsburg State University, is the guest speaker for a “Remembering 9/11’ presentation Friday at Allen Community College. Woestman specializes in 20th century U.S. history and family history.…

Local first responders will take a role Saturday morning in a Memorial Walk marking the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed about 3,000 people. Of those who perished were 412…

Nancy Jean McMurray, of Parsons died Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. She was born on May 8, 1955 to Jack and Lorene (Phipps) Farmer in Smithville, Mo.  On May 28, 1982, Nancy married Carl McMurray in…

TOPEKA — Sheena Mooney has spent the past year without a job or a safety net living in a trailer park a few miles from Washburn. Mooney lost her job at Frito-Lay in March 2020,…

NEW YORK — Maria Sakkari has eliminated 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu in the latest-finishing women’s match in tournament history to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time. Sakkari came back to win 6-7…