LE ROY — The Crest High School junior varsity and varsity volleyball teams stumbled at Southern Coffey County on Thursday in hard-fought sets.  The junior varsity Lady Lancers (8-8) ended their season with an even…

Teachers and staff walked into Iola Elementary School on Wednesday morning to find the new building transformed in a tribute to history. One stretch of the long, main hallway near the office had been filled…

It was Oct. 29, 2003. LeBron James played his first NBA game. The Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Sacramento Kings, and James scored 25 points. That night, there were 2,708 names ahead of him on…

Former Jefferson Elementary School teacher Linda Brocker remembers when she switched from third grade to first. She was dismayed to realize the younger children “didn’t know anything.”  But by the end of the school year,…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A woman who always maintained she was hiking and driving in Colorado when her ex-husband and his girlfriend were slain is free on bail for the first time in a decade…

NEW YORK (AP) — The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August as rising prices for rent and food chipped away at money available for other things. Retail sales were…

Kansans have until Tuesday to register for the Nov. 8 general election, with advance voting beginning Wednesday across the state. There are several statewide races to be decided, as well as one for Allen County…

The annual Farm-City Days festival continues this weekend, with the parade at 11 this morning. Fun Times Shows Carnival will be open until 10 tonight and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Also on…

NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. Sure, social media sleuths did piece together this week that the country superstar had been quietly paying…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police officers shot and killed a man early Thursday after he walked toward them with a knife as they tried to intervene in a carjacking, authorities say. The Kansas Bureau…