LE ROY — The Dakotah Sporing era is off to a good start. Crest High’s boys, under their first-year head coach, played brilliantly through the first half, endured some second-half foul trouble, then fended off…

Dr. Lee Norman, former Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment, is one more in a long line of political casualties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. After nearly two years of leading Kansas through the crisis,…

The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas is expanding its Walk-in Care hours from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting Monday, Dec. 6. Patients do not need an appointment to be seen for walk-in care…

LE ROY — A win is a win, Jeff True chuckled Thursday. “No matter how ugly it was.” True’s Southern Coffey County Lady Titans opened the 2021-22 season with a flourish, racing to leads of…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle, a city known for soggy weather, has seen its wettest fall on record.  The National Weather Service says 19.04 inches of rain fell between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, breaking a…

Tinslee Lewis has been on life support in the neonatal ICU at Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas, since her birth in early 2019. Born with a rare heart defect that left her with…

Pastor Chase Riebel gave the sermon on Sunday, “Prepare the People and Clear the Way.”  Christmas marks the beginning of the most important road we’ll ever take, following Jesus. We have all that we need…

TOPEKA — As confirmed cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 begin to pop up across the country, Kansas health officials and hospitals are preparing for the variant’s arrival in the state. On Wednesday, the…

The Broncos don’t beat the Chiefs. Andy Reid almost never loses coming off a bye. The NFL flexed Denver at Kansas City with those facts staring directly at the league? Well, yes. Sunday night’s game,…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Dr. Sikhulile Moyo was analyzing COVID-19 samples in his lab in Botswana last week when he noticed they looked startlingly different from others.  Within days, the world was ablaze with the news …