TOPEKA — CoreCivic signed a new contract valued at $60 million a year with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house migrant detainees at its Leavenworth facility, but the agreement won’t take effect until legal issues…

Allen Community College trustees expressed little appetite Monday to pour millions of dollars into a pair of aging dormitories. The trustees gathered in a special meeting to discuss the nuts and bolts of a recently…

TOPEKA — Ty Theurer resigned Monday as superintendent of Comanche County schools amid public outrage over allegations he sexually harassed and inappropriately touched a student. School board member Dean Yoder confirmed the board accepted Theurer’s…

Padlock damaged Frank Thomas told police Thursday somebody cut the padlock to his storage unit in the 300 block of North Jefferson Avenue. Vehicles damaged Ted Bresee told officers Thursday morning somebody damaged his vehicle…

Carolyn Sue Kirkpatrick Clubine died on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, at Medicalodges of Iola. She was born March 26, 1942, to Allen L. Kirkpatrick and Violet Irene Dye Kirkpatrick in  Farmersburg. Carolyn married Frank Clubine…

Chalmers Lavon Smith, 84, of Topeka, Kansas, passed away Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. He was born Feb. 11, 1941, in Iola, the son of Chalmers William and Beatrice (Brunell) Smith. He graduated from Iola High…

Ronald Lee Cleaver, 87, of Olathe, passed away peacefully at his home on Sept. 25, 2025, at 12:40 a.m., surrounded by loved ones. Born in 1937 on the family farm near Iola, Ron was the…

The federal government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader U.S. economy. Employee furloughs and potential layoffs would halt some government activities. Other functions — like NASA’s space missions, Trump’s immigration crackdown…

QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces, with U.S. military might being deployed against what he described as the “invasion from within.” Addressing an audience…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to lower drug costs and invest $70 billion in U.S. manufacturing under a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Tuesday. The announcement, which Trump…