Month: December 2024

DETROIT (AP) — Tucker Gleason ran for one overtime score and threw for four more as Toledo beat Pittsburgh 48-46 in a bowl-record six overtimes at the GameAbove Sports Bowl at Ford Field on Thursday.…

A mystery seller is asking $200 million for an empty waterfront lot next door to the properties Jeff Bezos bought in South Florida. The roughly 1.84 acre lot is located at Indian Creek, a man-made…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic will be out about a month before being re-evaluated for a calf injury sustained in a Christmas Day loss to Minnesota, a person with knowledge of the injury said Friday.…

Sales rose this year during the holiday shopping season even as Americans wrestled with elevated prices for many groceries and other necessities, according to new data. Holiday sales from the beginning of November through Christmas…

Azerbaijan on Thursday observed a nationwide day of mourning for the victims of the plane crash that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured as speculation mounted about a possible cause of the…

TOPEKA — On Jan. 1, 2025, Kansans will no longer pay state sales tax on groceries. The current state tax of 2% will be reduced to zero.  A 2022 law set out a three-year plan…

GAZA, Palestine — An Israeli airstrike on a press broadcasting van killed five Palestinian journalists working in Gaza, according to a media report from the area on Thursday. Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, citing a reporter…

COLONY —”We want this to be a center of joy,” said Colony Christian Church Pastor Chase Riebel, referring to the church’s new building at 211 Catalpa St., just south of the town’s baseball and softball…

Russia rebuffed incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, while saying it’s ready to hold negotiations on a long-lasting peace agreement to end almost three years of war. “A ceasefire…

Erin Johnson Wallace, formerly of Iola, passed away on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in Bartlesville, Okla. Erin was born to Richard W. Wallace and Gita Johnson on Dec. 16, 1988, in Iola. Erin was preceded…