Month: April 2022

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Every big leaguer thinks their team has a chance when they arrive to spring training. The old “hope springs eternal” cliché is, after all, more apropos to Major League Baseball…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Great Kansas Comeback, as it will forever be known in the history books, is about more than just one stifling, scintillating 20-minute stretch of Jayhawks basketball. The championship KU captured…

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tom Watson didn’t think eight major championships, including two green jackets, would be enough to join the company of Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus on the first tee at Augusta National.…

Sometime soon, Iola city workers will dig a trench around the bandstand on the Allen County courthouse lawn and open the way for Iola Lions Club members to begin renovation of the bandstand. After the…

I have had a very satisfying 57-year legal career — with a few more to come, I hope. I was a prosecutor who sent a number of murderers to the penitentiary, I served an East…

Alina is one of the lucky ones. She’s not dead from starvation or a Russian bullet or missile in Mariupol. The world is witnessing the horror of Russian war crimes in Ukraine — as revealed…

Ten years ago, the world was horrified by the Sandy Hook massacre.  A shooting at an elementary school on Dec. 14, 2012, killed 20 first-graders and six school employees in Newtown, Conn. The shooter, Adam…

ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine gathered its dead and collected evidence of Russian atrocities on the ruined outskirts of Kyiv, as the two sides geared up Wednesday for what could become a climactic battle by…

Allen County isn’t alone in its struggle to find workers, the head of a labor study organization told a group of employers on Wednesday morning. Chad Chancellor, CEO of Next Move Group LLC, presented results…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Violent storms killed at least two people, one in Georgia and another in Texas, on Tuesday as hail, strong winds and tornadoes tore across the South, where authorities warned a second…