JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — With just 3½ days left until Major League Baseball’s deadline for a deal that would ensure a 162-game season, negotiators met for the fifth straight day during a week with no…

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 78-year-old male in fairly good health. I recently read an excerpt from a recent study on the link between cataracts and dementia. According to the study, people with cataracts…

Hi Carolyn: Recently, I found out that my younger brother is expecting his first child. This exciting news is tempered by the fact that he intends to indefinitely keep this news from our mother.  Our…

CARBONDALE — There was a chance, however remote, that Iola High’s boys could have been on the outside looking in for the upcoming Class 4A playoffs. Had the Mustangs lost their regular season finale Thursday,…

COLONY — The 1A-Division I substate tournament began on Thursday at Crest. Marmaton Valley and Crest’s boys basketball teams battled in a tough defensive game but Crest defended home court, winning 44-41. With the victory,…

CARBONDALE — Kelsey Johnson isn’t much on moral victories “But I can’t be upset about this loss,” Johnson said Thursday, following Iola High’s 56-34 loss at Santa Fe Trail. “We never felt like we were…

YATES CENTER — While both basketball teams already knew when and where they would be playing next week to start the postseason, Humboldt and Yates Center had some unfinished business to take care of Thursday…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Standing at the corner of 22nd and Brooklyn today, you overlook a site where the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth, played (exhibitions in 1927 and 1931) and the Sultan of Sod,…

OVERLAND PARK — Turns out Allen Community College wasn’t in the mood to share anything. The Red Devil men secured their first outright Jayhawk Conference title in 33 years Thursday, by defeating Johnson County Community…

TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education rejected the resignation Friday of the state education commissioner following evidence he said during a video conference that during his youth he tried to persuade children to…