Tag: Kansas

There’s a reason transactions over the Internet continue to boom: They’re easy. And private. Or at least in theory. Which is why Brian McClendon, a co-founder of Google Earth and Google Maps, has had such…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — As Barry Werber walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue, he passed a cart carrying glassware and whiskey meant for the baby-naming ceremony scheduled at Dor Hadash, one of three small congregations…

Election 2018: This is the fourth of a series of articles on the five candidates for Kansas governor.   TOPEKA, Kan. — He’s brushed aside the state’s woeful financial straits. He’s dismissed concerns that driving…

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Anti-vaccine billboards claiming that routine childhood shots are deadly have popped up in several West Virginia cities. They warn that the son of former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Nick Catone died…

If economic development is seen as the cure-all for Kansas, then the expansion of Medicaid would be the ticket. If we feel we’ve lost our way in terms of moral compassion, then Medicaid expansion would…

Like Napoleon, Hillary Clinton’s long career ended in Waterloo. Only in her case, it was Waterloo, Iowa. She trailed Barack Obama’s 2012 totals by 9 percent in Waterloo’s Black Hawk County, helping President Trump win…

The horror inflicted on a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday was not, as President Trump suggested, the consequence of worshiping without the presence of an armed guard. It for all the world appeared to be the act…

WAMEGO — On Saturday, the top runners from around the state in class 1, 2 and 4A convened at the Wamego Country Club golf course to compete in the State Cross Country Championship meet. Racing…

In a field four or five miles northeast of Neosho Falls, Nathan Mentzer watched as a stream of soybeans flowed from his combine’s auger Wednesday afternoon. Mentzer, back on the farm while still holding a…

They’ve tripled their floor space, yet still managed to maintain their cozy, comfortable, even “homey” atmosphere. “We’re bigger, but it doesn’t feel different,” noted Jessica Quinhones, who runs Around the Corner with her parents, John…