LAHARPE — The annual LaHarpe Days celebration brings a day filled with activities for young and old alike Saturday. The events kick off at 9 a.m. with the annual color run, which begins (and ends)…

The four high school girls looked skittish as they stood before the school board in conservative Carlisle, Pa., in mid-April. Then they started speaking about why they wanted the board to vote to allow girls’…

Flagpoles are becoming the latest battlefield in the culture wars. Activists are fighting to get their banners onto public flagstaffs while keeping off those representing other groups or beliefs. The conflict is particularly heated this…

TOPEKA — Enforcement of a Kansas abortion law based in junk science has been indefinitely delayed, in what abortion providers call a temporary relief for a “dangerous and misleading” practice. On Tuesday, Kansas abortion providers…

Nelda Katherine Cuppy, 81, Moran, died Saturday, June 17, 2023, at her residence.  Nelda was born July 26, 1941, in Bronson, to William F. (Fred) Rudisill and Osa Vera (Doane) Rudisill.  Nelda and Gary (Butch)…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will plead guilty to federal tax offenses but avoid prosecution on a separate gun charge in a deal with the Justice Department that likely spares him time…

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium ion batteries.…

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges and could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t sharply reduced,…

Calvary Life Center will host an ice cream social during and before the Thursday night municipal band performance.  Ice cream will be available at Calvary Life Center at 4 p.m. and at the bandstand starting…

Arrests reported Iola officers arrested Evelina Dyche, Iola, for suspicion of domestic battery Sunday in the 900 block of North Washington Avenue. Darren Johnson, 37, Iola, was arrested Friday at the intersection of East Street…