KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It would have been easy, perhaps even tempting, to count out the Allen Community College volleyball team this season. With new head coach Maria Aikins coming on board just weeks before…

Andrea Newman is crystal clear about what’s motivating her to run for a seat on the Humboldt USD 258 Board of Education: this spring’s discussion about moving the district to a four-day school week. While…

When shots aren’t falling — and they certainly weren’t early Wednesday in Allen Community College’s women season opener  — head coach Leslie Crane knows just the elixir. “I tell the girls, if you’re ready to…

There was a little bad, but a lot of good, for Allen Community College’s basketball team Wednesday. The Red Devils started the second half with a burst to dispatch a pesky Ottawa Junior Varsity squad,…

PHOENIX (AP) — Nathan Eovaldi pitched six gutsy innings, Mitch Garver broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the seventh and the Texas Rangers are World Series champions for the first time in…

WICHITA, Kansas — A national shortage of a new immunization that protects babies from severe cases of respiratory syncytial virus is worrying Kansas doctors as they try to avoid a repeat of last year’s “tripledemic”…

PARIS (AP) — Recording-breaking winds in France and across much of Western Europe left at least five people dead and injured several others as Storm Ciarán swept through the continent overnight and into Thursday, plunging…

Free naloxone vending machines will be placed in several counties across Kansas by the end of the year. The machines will be in Douglas, Johnson and Wyandotte counties in northeast Kansas. They’ll also be placed…

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops advanced toward Gaza City on Thursday, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. With no end in sight after weeks of heavy fighting, U.S. and Arab mediators…

Tony Ray LaCrone, 61, of Iola, passed away at his home on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.  VanArsdale Funeral Home of Le Roy is in…