Month: April 2024

If Iola High’s baseball season ends on a successful note, a pair of early losses may be the key,  the Mustangs’ Grady Dougherty said this week. Iola entered the March 28 doubleheader with high hopes,…

Humboldt High School athletes worked with throngs of youngsters on the basics of track and field events Wednesday at the USD 258 Sports Complex. Humboldt Elementary School students from kindergarten through second grade were hosted…

COLONY — Crest High didn’t let the sting of losing an eight-game winning streak linger Tuesday. After a rally came up achingly short in a 6-5 defeat to visiting Olpe, the Lancers responded in a…

COLONY — Bumpy starts on the softball diamond spelled trouble Tuesday for Crest High. The Lady Lancers saw visiting Southern Lyon County erupt for six runs in the first game of their doubleheader, and six…

TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education on Tuesday voted to expand indigenous education outreach from the K-12 to college level, following debate that touched on mascots and political agendas. Members approved 9-1 a…

LaHarpe residents have discovered that two of three priorities for their community have remained the same over the past year. During Tuesday evening’s LaHarpe Community Conversation, hosted by Thrive Allen County, a small group of…

LONDON (AP) — The wife of Julian Assange said Thursday her husband’s legal case “could be moving in the right direction” after President Joe Biden confirmed the U.S. may drop charges against the imprisoned WikiLeaks…

Emily Cowan, founder of the Abandoned Kansas and Missouri branches of the Abandoned Atlas Foundation, recalls seeing her first abandoned place. The Skedee school in Oklahoma had been closed for 50 years, so Cowan was…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but was found liable in a separate civil trial,…

Though things may look in disarray, Steve and Gail Norman, owners of Normans Printing, want people to know they are “downsizing,” and not going out of business.  The Normans have until the first of May…