Allen County’s new interim County Appraiser is bringing a positive attitude with her to the new role. Iola native Danielle Louk had most recently served as the Deputy County Appraiser. She accepted the promotion after…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt sits in front of his locker, smiling and laughing through the final grind of a demanding season. The discomfort is way better than a…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Alijah Martin scored 18 points, Denzel Aberdeen added 16 and No. 8 Florida thumped top-ranked Tennessee 73-43 on Tuesday night to knock off the last unbeaten team in Division I basketball.…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Brian Matusz, the left-handed pitcher who spent eight seasons in the major leagues, mostly with the Baltimore Orioles as they returned to prominence a decade ago, has died. He was 37. The…

FORT WORTH, Texas — On the wrong end of a controversial call, Brett Yormark has the necessary video to ask that the officiating in major college football be addressed. Doesn’t mean it will happen. Or…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With his illustrious racing career expanding, Hélio Castroneves made a bet. Should the four-time Indianapolis 500 champion win in his Superstar Racing Experience debut, then-SRX director Don Hawk told him he’d start…

In less than two weeks, Donald Trump will become our 47th president. Among a number of priorities about which the soon-to-be president has mused publicly — going after undocumented workers, going after Liz Cheney, going…

We tend to forget, as the years go by, that this is how it always ends. No one walks away in their own time. It always takes a push. If you have the drive and…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Handcuffed and squatting on the floor, Abdullah Zahra saw smoke rising from his cellmate’s flesh as his torturers gave him electric shocks. Then it was Zahra’s turn. They hanged the 20-year-old…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures Tuesday to some of the southernmost points of the U.S., threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma in the coming days…