KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital on Wednesday enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities, with video obtained by The Associated Press showing women…

WASHINGTON (AP) — An 800-page report set to be released by House investigators as soon as Wednesday will conclude that then-President Donald Trump criminally plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat and “provoked his supporters…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile to states as flu-sickened patients continue to flock to hospitals and doctors’ offices around…

ROELAND PARK — Gov. Laura Kelly initiated a campaign Monday to convince the Republican-led Legislature the revenue surplus was sufficient to end the state sales tax on groceries by April 1, create a three-day sales…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The confidence of American consumers rebounded this month to end the year on a high note despite high inflation, rising interest rates that have made credit cards and mortgages more expensive, and…

Jimmy Dale O’Brien, Sr., 93, Iola, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola. Jimmy was born June 18, 1929, in Independence, to Paul O’Brien and Lois (Johnson) O’Brien.  Jimmy and Patricia…

Thrive Allen County and Iola Mayor Steve French are encouraging businesses, churches, lodges and individuals to offer warming stations during the coming cold snap. Anyone willing to serve as a temporary warming station is asked…

Iola Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Troop 55 serenade passersby from the Allen County Courthouse bandstand with Christmas carols Tuesday evening, braving a cold north wind in the process.  Pack 55 will host a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was making his way to Washington on Wednesday for a summit with President Joe Biden and an address Congress in a bid to shore up support for his…

Local, county and state officials are bracing for a predicted cold snap. With Allen County on the southern edge of a winter storm expected to bring blizzard-like conditions elsewhere in the state, and sub-zero temperatures…