The workload facing Allen Community College’s maintenance staff took center stage Tuesday as trustees debated whether to hire another staffer to handle the department’s administrative and clerical duties. Trustees voted 4-2 — Vicki Curry and…

Allen Community College trustees hired Matthew Gleason Tuesday as Vice President of Finance and Operations, effective Sept. 1. Gleason brings more than 20 years of accounting and financial leadership experience to Allen, with a career…

When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska it will be the seventh time the two have talked in person.  This time is different, though. Since their last sit-down, Mr Putin has launched an unprovoked…

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The DeSantis administration is making arrangements to hold immigrant detainees at a North Florida prison as a federal judge weighs whether to temporarily shut down Alligator Alcatraz, the makeshift immigration detention camp…

TOPEKA — Judith Deedy said there’s been a disconnect for a decade in Kansas’ student assessment scores. Her oldest child once earned fives — the highest level at the time — until 2015, when she…

NEW YORK (AP) — After a summer of vacations and late nights, it’s time to set those back-to-school alarms. A good night’s sleep helps students stay focused and attentive in class. Experts say it’s worth…

President Donald Trump using an obscure emergency provision in federal law pertaining to Washington, D.C. to attempt to take full control over the capital’s local police force is not responding to any “emergency,” but just…

Kansans can congratulate themselves. A vacancy on the state Supreme Court has once again been smoothly filled through an orderly process Kansans voted to put into our state constitution in 1958.  At its heart, the…

And here you thought the lesson of the Smoot-Hawley tariff era was that a trade war can be destructive. Think again, folks, because President Trump’s lawyers say the courts must uphold the legality of his…