Reports of online scams doubled in 2023 as artificial intelligence and text-based scams gain popularity among hackers, a new report from the Better Business Bureau says. More than 9,000 people nationally reported phishing scams —…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to qualify for next week’s debate in Atlanta, according to host network CNN, falling shy of benchmarks both for state ballot qualification…

Prices for filling up your car began falling this month, with the national average dropping the most significantly this year to $3.48 per gallon. The drop the first week in June was 8 cents. New…

Ina June Combs, 90, of Aliceville, passed away early Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at The Meadows in Burlington. Ina was born June 14, 1934, the daughter of Guy William and Freda Lillian (Volland) Hunter. Ina’s…

Summer officially begins Thursday, with the solstice occurring at 4:51 p.m. — the earliest since June 20, 1796. Yet even when the longest day of the year arrives more promptly than expected, there aren’t enough…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A plan in Kansas for luring the Kansas City’s two major league sports franchises from Missouri has prompted their hometown’s mayor to declare that the move ends a 5-year-old agreement by…

It is 70 years since AT&T’s Bell Labs unveiled a new technology for turning sunlight into power. The phone company hoped it could replace the batteries that run equipment in out-of-the-way places.  It also realized…

Anyone who has monitored Kansas State basketball recruiting over the past two years can understand just how important NIL money has become in college sports. Shortly after Jerome Tang was hired to coach the Wildcats,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday — but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt. “I was hospitalized for a blood infection…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to “unconditionally support” Russia in its invasion of Ukraine at talks with President Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang that emphasized deepening ties amid U.S. concerns about arms supplies to…