YATES CENTER — Ben Cook was cooking early, while Gavin Busteed busted things open late for Yates Center High Wednesday. The Wildcat freshmen played critical roles, first as Yates Center built a sizable lead, and…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict. The ministry said a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Zeke Mayo scored 23 points and No. 11 Kansas held Arizona State to 13 in the second half of a 74-55 victory Wednesday night. Hunter Dickinson added 15 points and 12…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters began to slow the spread of deadly and devastating fires in the Los Angeles area Thursday after the ferocious winds that drove the fast-moving flames diminished, but the largest blazes…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk is set to host a live-streamed chat on his social media platform X on Thursday with a leader of Germany’s far-right party, amplifying its message ahead of…

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — As a rule, golf isn’t played inside, at night, off large divots of grass as “Boogie Oogie Oogie” blares over loudspeakers and fans are urged by a microphone-wielding emcee to…

Property tax cuts and access to care for young, transgender people are likely to be top issues in the Kansas Statehouse this year. Top Kansas Republicans said they’ll look at amending the state constitution to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a…

TOPEKA — A long-shot constitutional challenge to Kansas’ death penalty unfolding in preliminary court proceedings for a man charged in the death of four people at a Wyandotte County bar centers on claims the state’s…