Month: June 2018

PARIS (AP) — In full control of the French Open final, a rather familiar position for him, Rafael Nadal suddenly was worried. He led by two sets plus a break early in the third, when…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Matt Chapman homered leading off the eighth, moments after shortstop Marcus Semien’s defensive gem, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Sunday. Stephen Piscotty and Jonathan Lucroy…

Six months ago, we couldn’t have fathomed a tête-a-tête between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. Back then, each was comparing the size of their nuclear button and trading personal insults.…

65 Years Ago June 1953 Thomas. H. Bowlus, president of the Allen County State Bank, says he will build a new bank building at the west corner of the intersection of South Street and Madison…

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson will receive about $650,000 from NASA to promote science, technology engineering and math education. NASA announced this week that the Cosmosphere was one of three applicants to…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A woman who led an investigator to the decomposing remains of her 5-year-old stepson three months after reporting him missing was found dead early Friday in a Wichita home with three…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government and an American foundation are honoring a U.S. educator who together with his high school students made the world aware of Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved…

WASHINGTON — It was another one of those weeks in which the wheels seemed to come off the axle of the American motor coach. President Trump speculated about his power to pardon himself for crimes,…

Kansas has some of the highest education achievement standards in the country, but students are struggling to reach that high bar. The new report from the National Center For Education Statistics standardized state proficiency assessments…

Jimmy Lewis Jensen, 61, of Neosho Falls, lost his life on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, following a long battle with cancer. He was born July 4, 1956, in Iola, the son of Lewis and Mary…