Mike Jewell, who is legally blind, understands the importance of safe streets and sidewalks. After all, he’s been struck by a car seven times. He also remembers the time he tripped over stairs at Allen…

ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Under a new Kansas Department of Transportation program, “Lost to DUI” memorial signs will be placed along state and federal highways for victims of drunken driving accidents. The first memorial sign…

BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of 1,000-year-old silver coins, rings, pearls and bracelets linked to the era of Danish King Harald Gormsson have been found on the eastern German island of Rue-gen in the Baltic Sea.…

Ina Jeanne Dody, 83, of Le Roy, died Thursday, April 12, 2018, at Yates Center Health and Rehab. No funeral services are planned. There will be a gathering at a later date to celebrate her…

Iola Public Library Caia Paine takes an unlikely route to acceptance and a kind of peace after her 13-year-old son is killed by a car while skateboarding in “Redemption Song” by Tanya Anne Crosby. Her…

SCRANTON, Kan. (AP) — An Apple Watch may have helped save a Kansas woman’s life by alerting her to her rapid heartbeat. Heather Hendershot went to an urgent care clinic and then to Stormont Vail…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The trial of three men accused of plotting to bomb an apartment complex housing Somali refugees in western Kansas is drawing to a close after weeks of testimony. All sides have…

Savonburg Public Library received a $175 programming grant from the Southeast Kansas Library System to be used for a performer, Aaron Fowler, who will present a music-based children’s program during the summer reading program. The…

Individuals and organizations are encouraged to apply for funds available through the City of Iola’s Convention and Tourism Board. The funds are collected by motels as a transient guest tax or what is commonly known…

Insight Kansas Early a week ago Sunday, at the last minute, Kansas legislators passed a school funding bill of more than $500 million. The Supreme Court must still rule on its constitutionality, but the frantic…