Month: August 2023

Taiwan’s players put the finishing touches on a 10-0 mercy rule win over Japan, then marched to the oversized Little League World Series bracket between Volunteer and Lamade stadiums. They stamped their name in the…

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — A’ja Wilson matched the WNBA record for points in a game with 53 as the Las Vegas Aces beat the short-handed Atlanta Dream 112-100 on Tuesday night. Wilson equaled the…

Idaho’s 2023 Teacher of the Year is Karen Lauritzen.  Though her peers, students and superiors recognize the fourth-grade teacher’s amazing talents, Lauritzen received enough hate mail and threats that beginning next week, she’ll be teaching…

Last month, a mysterious metal object washed up on a remote beach in western Australia. A few days later, the Australian Space Agency announced that it was probably the charred remains of an Indian space…

Both of Missouri’s Republican U.S. senators last week endorsed the premise that the state’s voters should be able to weigh in on the strict abortion ban put in place last year. They also expressed support…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley’s FFA Chapter in Moran was awarded $2,812 as part of the Grants for Growing program. The nationwide program, sponsored by Tractor Supply Company, provides grant funds to local FFA chapters to…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of Hawaii’s wildfires that the nation “grieves with you” and promised that the federal government will help “for as long as it takes” Maui…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said infusion of government funding contributed to an increase of more than 6,800 child-care slots in Kansas over a 14-month period following erosion of services statewide amid the COVID-19 pandemic.…

The heat index in the Iola area on Monday afternoon read 120 degrees. That’s far too hot for any high school sports team to practice outside and straight up against Kansas State High Schools Activities…

AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — A track for live horse racing in suburban Seattle turned prehistoric over the weekend as more than 200 people ran down the track cloaked in inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costumes. The…