Month: July 2023

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chris Paul worked out with new teammate Stephen Curry in Atlanta on Sunday morning before traveling to Las Vegas. His assessment of the session: They didn’t miss too many shots. Evidently,…

The European Court of Human Rights is expected to deliver what could be the final word Tuesday in Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya’s yearslong legal challenge against rules that force her and other female athletes…

The New York Times is disbanding its sports department and will rely on coverage from The Athletic, a website it acquired last year for $550 million. The decision impacts more than 35 people in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers pulled back on hiring but still delivered another month of solid gains in June, adding 209,000 jobs, a sign that the economy’s resilience is confounding the Federal Reserve’s drive to…

At least six fires were smoking on 5,276 acres around western Colorado on Friday. The Devil’s Thumb fire closest to Denver, in the wilderness near Fraser, still isn’t fully contained but wasn’t spreading as firefighters…

We’re almost to the All-Star Game, the halfway point of the Major League Baseball season. In my mind, we can already draw two conclusions. One is disheartening: the Royals’ season is over. The boys in…

Earnest P. Wright went to join his wife Betty Joe Wright on July 5, 2023. Cremation has been requested. He was born to Lester and Agnes Wright in Fort Scott, on Jan. 26, 1932. He…

Meredith Maxine (Heckman) Rogers, 67, of Iola, died Friday, June 30, 2023 at the Life Care Center of Wichita. Meredith was born in Wertheim, Germany, on Dec. 22, 1955. As a baby, she was adopted…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine and is expected to announce on Friday that the Pentagon will send thousands of them as part of a new…