ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The United Nations raced Friday to rescue more civilians from the tunnels under a besieged steel plant in Mariupol and the city at large, even as fighters holed up at the…

Think of it as a murder mystery set millions of years ago. Paleontologists excavate an area and discover a variety of dinosaur bones. They wonder: “Why are there so many meat-eating dinosaurs and so few…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Karine Jean-Pierre is slated to step into her new role as the next White House press secretary on May 13. Jean-Pierre, 44, who currently serves as principal deputy press secretary and deputy…

Representatives of Thrive Allen County, Allen Community College and the Health Forward Foundation had a ribbon cutting event on Friday for a new trail around the campus. The 1-mile trail was made possible by a…

Can I get something on the record? I love moms. I really love moms. A caring mother provides the best chance, sometimes the only chance, a young person has of turning into a responsible, self-reliant,…

CHANUTE — Iola High School’s tennis season came to an end Friday in the Class 4A Regionals. The Mustangs took singles players Sam Fager and Ethan Riebel to the Chanute High School tennis courts. Fager,…

Mother Nature is apparently not much of a sports fan, washing away baseball and softball games for all area teams Thursday. The Iola High baseball team, who never did play a game at its home…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems during the first two years of the pandemic, more…

Law enforcement officers are carrying out raids in Topeka on shops selling cannabis products. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office won’t answer questions about how many stores it has raided, on what dates or how much…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year. For abortion-seekers…