Cortney O’Brien, of Erie, saw first-hand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s education. She worked as a teacher when classes were canceled and shifted online during the pandemic.  “That was hard. Not only…

Familiar faces in new places may be the theme in downtown Iola this summer. Not long after looking for a new location for her wellness studio, Rhoda Morrison found an ideal spot just down the…

TOPEKA – Investigators are looking into who may have sent scores of letters containing suspicious white powder to state lawmakers and other public officials across the state. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported over the…

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said they agreed to “stabilize” badly deteriorated U.S.-China ties, but America’s top diplomat left Beijing with his…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Kansas Highway Patrol seized thousands of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl in the first large haul of a state team designed to combat the flow of the synthetic…

A two-vehicle accident Friday morning on U.S. 54 sent Cheryl Wallis, 75,  Moran, to the hospital after the car she was driving struck  the rear end of a pickup driven by Walker A. Logan, 18,…

PERRYTON, Texas (AP) — Cleanup efforts continued Friday after severe storms — including some that produced tornadoes — tore across a swath of Southern states, killing at least five people as they destroyed hundreds of…

Maria Aikins, who formerly coached volleyball at Hutchinson High School, has been hired as the next head volleyball coach at Allen Community College. Aikins’s hiring was approved Tuesday by college trustees. She also will be…

During its two-day annual meeting that began on Tuesday, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the ouster of its largest congregation that ordained women and began a process to amend its constitution to ensure its church…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A truck driver who spewed hatred of Jews has been convicted of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath and fatally shooting 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror…