Hands down, the job market is the best it’s been in 45 years.  Unemployment in Kansas is a rock-bottom 2.5%; 3.6% for the country. If you’re looking for a job, employers are rolling out the…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jay Wright shocked college basketball Wednesday night with his immediate resignation at Villanova, the Big East program he led to two national championships and four Final Fours in a Hall of Fame…

TORONTO (AP) — After pushing the Toronto Raptors to the brink of elimination, Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid pledged to finish the job as quickly as possible. Embiid made a 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds left in overtime…

FORT SCOTT — Looks can be deceiving. Take Fort Scott’s Woodland Hills Golf Course, which will serve as the site for the upcoming Class 4A Regional Tournament in May. Iola High’s Mustangs were at Woodland…

LONDON (AP) — Tennis players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to play at Wimbledon this year because of the war in Ukraine, the All England Club announced Wednesday. Among the prominent men’s…

GARNETT — Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade boys are Pioneer League champions. The Mustang squad took the top spot at the League Track Meet Tuesday at Anderson County. Iola’s team score of 97, was 12 points…

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now has enough evidence to answer a historically significant question: Should it refer former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — DeMar DeRozan made sure the Chicago Bulls altered their painful recent history against the Milwaukee Bucks and gave this first-round series a fresh new start. Now it’s the defending champion Bucks who…

NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West is declaring the depiction of his character in HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” to be “cruel” and “deliberately false,” and is demanding…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the battle for Mariupol on Thursday, even as he ordered his troops not to risk more losses by storming the giant steel plant containing…