Month: January 2024

BALTIMORE (AP) — The first quarter was vintage Patrick Mahomes, picking apart the Baltimore defense with quick passes, with Travis Kelce on the other end of several of them. Then the Kansas City defense —…

Overcoming adversity was the theme of the night for Iola High’s girls, and it paid off with a victory. Already without the services of starting senior Keira Fawson, who aggravated a nose injury in  a…

This Tuesday’s conversation at Iola High School organized by Thrive Allen County’s high school interns brought around 300 students together to imagine what could be different and how things could improve in their hometown. It’s…

Tiago Cortes of Brazil thought he wanted to be an electrical engineer. Then he started designing sets for Allen Community College’s theatre program. “When I was in the process of creating and building, I saw…

Jason and I retreated to the ICU waiting room to talk about his mother’s precipitous decline. Moments earlier the attending physician had spoken of her imminent death. “Six to 12 hours—maybe,” he said. I wanted…

The surgeries were some of the most complex Dr. Nataliya Biskup had ever done. But that wasn’t the most difficult part of the Wichita doctor’s recent trip to Ukraine, where she helped operate on soldiers…

Lately, we seem to be so inseparable that you might as well call us Evertilova. We have not always been so in step with each other; one of us is quiet, the other unquiet.  But…

Iola High School’s fifth-graders who successfully completed this year’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program were treated to a motivational speech from Dan Meers of Kansas City, known professionally for his portrayal of KC Wolf,…

TOPEKA —  Two Kansas Republican lawmakers joined a Democratic colleague Thursday to stress the safety and necessity of vaccines, in an attempt to stave off misinformation in the Statehouse. Rep. Melissa Oropeza, D-Kansas City, Rep.…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House agriculture committee voted to perform a gut-and-go overhaul of a hemp regulation bill to narrow scope of the legislation to reductions in annual licensing fees for the plant’s producers and…