PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors opened an investigation into an online harassment complaint made by Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif after a torrent of criticism and false claims about her sex during the Summer Games,…

The first full weekend of exhibition games featuring the new dynamic kickoff included two long returns, a significant drop in touchbacks and mass confusion on an odd play that ended up as a rare safety. The NFL’s goals of increasing…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to embark on a year-long study beginning next month that will test samples for evidence of highly pathogenic avian influenza from former dairy cattle moved into meat…

Imagine that well-meaning politicians created a government program that was supposed to help people.  Now, imagine that same program getting 30 years of tax dollars and helping precisely nobody.  Worse yet, imagine that the program’s…

Goodbye, Nick Saban. Hello, Oklahoma and Texas. For the first time in 17 years, Alabama’s iconic coach won’t be prowling the sidelines in the Southeastern Conference. With one longtime juggernaut headed to an ESPN gig and semi-retirement, two…

Raise your hand if you knew that Congress is debating a bill this summer that could slow the pace of climate change, produce cleaner drinking water, restore habitat for endangered wildlife and improve the American…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Marion police chief who led a raid last year on the town’s weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential…

Pastor Steve Traw’s sermon Sunday at Carlyle Presbyterian Church was “Many Things in Parables,” taken from Mark 4. You can learn a lesson just by reading the cartoon strip “Charlie Brown,” Traw said. When Charlie…

Iola City Council members are one step closer to revising the city’s temporary business licensing ordinance. Council member Joelle Shallah presented the council with recommendations for the Transient/Temporary Business ordinance that had previously been discussed…

Next year’s budget for USD 257 will likely include a slight tax increase, school board members were told Monday. Most of the funding is based on enrollment numbers, which have been declining except for a…