Karen Stark is scared.From her battles with lung and heart disease, blood clots, osteoarthritis and most recently MRSA — a bacterial infection highly resistant to many types of antibiotics — Stark will learn in September…

It wasn’t a pretty sight.The gray coat of the male Weimaraner, supposed to be smooth and sleek, was rippled by the dog’s protruding ribs.“He was dehydrated and we had to hand feed him,” said Andi…

Boyd E. White, 70 of Leavenworth, died Sunday, July 10, 2011.He was born Sept. 18, 1940, in Emporia. He served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Coral Sea. Boyd was a supervisor in the…

Iladel “Rusty” Sherwood, 90, a resident of Windsor Park in Carol Stream, Ill., and formerly of Kansas, New York City, Chicago and Wheaton, Ill., died Monday, July 11, 2011, at Johnson Health Care Center at…

Dessie Downs, 91, died Monday, July 11, 2011, at the home of her daughter in Arkansas City.She was born April 28,1920, to Samuel and Lora Brooks Gregg.In October 1937, she married Virgil Linthicum in Iola.…

Drew and Molly Rush, Prairie Village, announce the birth of their first child, Olivia Grace, born May 26, 2011, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Kansas City. She weighed 8 pounds, 8.5 ounces and was…

Isabella was the most popular name for a newborn girl in the United States in 2010. The Social Security Administration, which keeps tabs on all of us, also keeps track of what parents name their…

Currently 96; high, 100. Haven’t had a summer like this for a while. Turned the grass brown in a week. Respite from mowing, but hard on the beans, the corn, the cattle. Still, not all…

Athal, Cedar and Gaylord, all in Smith County, and Brownell in Ness County have been added to the list of 32 Kansas post offices under review for possible closure.Closing a post office is a very-last-ditch…

GARNETT — Sigg Motors won the regular season title of the USSSA 14-and-Under Boys League. The Iola team plays in the league hosted by Garnett.Sigg Motors captured the 14-and-Under Boys League tournament championship Thursday. But…