HUMBOLDT — The Sunflower Quilter’s Guild will meet Monday, Aug. 28, at Humboldt United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 806 N. Ninth St. The board meets at 9:30 a.m. followed by the guild meeting at 10.

TOPEKA — Affidavits signed by a police chief and magistrate to warrant the raid on the Marion County Record were supposed to provide evidence that a reporter committed a crime. Instead, they serve as evidence that the…

PITTSBURG — Authorities are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspects in an early Sunday morning shooting that left a man dead. Justin E. Krogen, 36, of Pittsburg, was killed in the shooting outside…

Although many gardens are still producing, it is time to get our fall vegetables planted. Believe it or not, fall is a great gardening season.   When you think about it, fall weather is much…

YATES CENTER — Kansas State University will highlight 32 years of research — as well as look to future studies — when it hosts a field day at the Bressner Range Research Unit on Sept.…

The Prairie Dell 4-H Club met on Aug. 14, 2023.   For roll call, members said what ribbons they won at the Allen County Fair.   They sang “Bingo” to kick off the meeting.  …

ORBETELLO, Italy (AP) — Italians are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs with an attitude borne of centuries of culinary making do: If you can’t beat them, eat them. Fishermen, lobbying groups and environmentalists…

Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared Oct. 11, 2009. Dear Carolyn: My husband’s ex just had a baby, making me one of few stepmothers who get to start from scratch. Because of this…

HOUSTON (AP) — Sweltering temperatures lingered Sunday in a large swath of the central U.S., causing misery from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. Record high temperatures were recorded in Texas and other…

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss weather service said Monday a heat wave has driven the zero-degree Celsius level to its highest altitude since recordings on it in Switzerland began nearly 70 years ago, an ominous…