Carnival fans may get their wish after all with the upcoming Farm-City Days. Committee members hope to have a contract signed soon to bring a carnival for the Oct. 14-17 celebration. The carnival has been…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators blocked a bill to keep the government operating and allow federal borrowing, but Democrats aiming to avert a shutdown pledged to try again — at the same time pressing ahead…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homicides in the U.S. in 2020 increased nearly 30% over the previous year, the largest one-year jump since the FBI began keeping records, according to figures released Monday by the agency. Homicides…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government announced today that the coronavirus state of emergency will end this week to help rejuvenate the economy as infections slow. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said the emergency will end Thursday…

Hurricane Sam continued dancing Monday morning as a powerful category 4 storm and seems to have partners joining it on the Atlantic basin dance floor in the forms of three other disturbances. The seventh hurricane…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Burdett Loomis, a longtime University of Kansas political scientist, a frequently quoted commentator and author, co-author or editor of more than a dozen books on politics, has died. He was 76.…

LAWRENCE — Local runners had the opportunity to run against the best of the best from across the state Saturday. The occasion was Lawrence’s 2021 Rim Rock Farm Classic, hosted by the University of Kansas. …

EUREKA — As a football coach, Humboldt High’s  Logan Wyrick has pretty much always subscribed to the theory that the best offensive lines are the ones who consistently play together. That typically requires the same…

YATES CENTER — Yates Center High’s football team made it 4-for-4 to start the 2021 football season. Four games. Four wins. The Wildcats had little trouble dispatching visiting Oswego, 56-6, to also make it the…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs coach Andy Reid is resting and in stable condition after being taken to a hospital following Kansas City’s 30-24 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. The Chiefs…