YATES CENTER — Nick McAnulty has a simple message for his Crest High squad this year. If you don’t have the ball, you better be blocking. Message delivered. The Lancers opened the 2022 season Friday…

Wouldn’t it be easier for them to get a job? Seems so. But the scammers are at it again, this time targeting cell phones in the 620 area code with a fake notification from the…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly won’t know for more than five months whether she wagered wisely by betting $15 on the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl LVII in February. She plunked down cash…

Mark Saturday, Sept. 10, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Elsmore Ruritan Club. Activities begin at 10 a.m. at the Elsmore Community Building. A bake sale will include cornbread, cookies, and various other baked…

Cleta Irene (Weddle) Zimmerman, 90 years old of Centerville, entered into eternal rest peacefully on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, and has been reunited with her husband, Gerald, of 35 years and her son Randy as…

TOPEKA — The state of Kansas collected $11 million more sales and income tax revenue in August than predicted by fiscal analysts, officials said Friday. Gov. Laura Kelly said the report indicated Kansas met or…

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a healthy number of jobs last month, yet slowed their hiring enough to potentially help the Federal Reserve in its fight to reduce raging inflation. The economy gained 315,000…

(TNS) — The water crisis unfolding in Jackson, Mississippi, was decades in the making: the culmination of crumbling infrastructure, systemic racism and more extreme weather. It’s also a stark warning of trouble to come as…

A lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has been charged with conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said Thursday. Kellye SoRelle — general counsel for…

TOPEKA — A Shawnee County District Court jury reached an impasse Thursday on whether to convict Dana Chandler of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of her ex-husband and his fiancee. Judge Cheryl Rios brought…