KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A northeast Kansas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge for his participation in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Mark Roger Rebegila, 32, of St. Marys,…

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Even Christmas trees aren’t immune to the pandemic-induced shortages and inflation plaguing the economy. Extreme weather and supply chain disruptions have reduced supplies of both real and artificial trees this season.…

Three candidates to replace the retiring John Masterson as Allen Community College president will be in town in the coming days to meet the public. The College Board of Trustees announced they have scheduled times…

Jefferson Elementary School entertained a Bowlus Fine Arts Center crowd with an assortment of festive songs as part of its winter program, “An Old-Fashioned Christmas.” The first- and second-graders were later joined on stage by…

Turns out removing several hundred boxes of moldy, old hospital records is a bit more challenging than expected. Terry Call, planning and zoning administrator for Allen County, told commissioners he hit a stumbling block when…

OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital,…

TOPEKA — State education officials and lobbyists clashed Tuesday in a debate over whether improved school finance creates positive trends in Kansas student achievement. As a product of the Gannon lawsuit and legislation approved by…

The Big 12 doesn’t have to wait until Oklahoma and Texas are gone to experience something that hasn’t happened for a long time — a championship game without either of those teams. When fifth-ranked Oklahoma…

In a virus that has already killed 5.2 million people across the globe,  50 or so new mutations sound like a nightmare for humanity. But in the age-old battle between microbes and mankind,  that many…

Democratic leaders in Congress are working around the clock to meet a new end-of-week deadline to avoid a government shutdown amid separate looming deadlines to avoid a disastrous national default, pass a defense bill and…