Month: August 2018

Allen County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday morning to provide up to $335,000 to aid Humboldt in extending utilities to a 30-acre industrial tract. They previously had agreed to a memorandum of understanding for that amount,…

CHANUTE — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Neosho County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the discovery late Sunday of skeletal remains in rural Neosho County. Neosho County Undersheriff Greg Taylor told the Chanute Tribune a…

Wichita Public School teachers are receiving a more than a 3.5 percent increase in salary. In Topeka, the increase is nearly 8 percent, that district’s largest in 26 years. School districts across Kansas are raising…

Kris Kobach lost his 2004 bid for Congress to Democrat Dennis Moore by a hefty margin — nearly 12 percentage points in a district that went Republican a few years later. Ask Moore’s media consultant…

New restaurant to open in Yates Center YATES CENTER — The Wrangler Ranch restaurant is expected to open soon at the site of the former Feedbunk restaurant, The Yates Center News reported. Owners are Isaiah…

If the experience of getting a bat stuck in your house or office isn’t unpleasant enough, Kansas health officials say it also means you should go get checked for rabies. Health officials say they have…

DETROIT (AP) — What began as a thin line swelled into a sea of sisterhood as hundreds of members of Delta Sigma Theta streamed into the rotunda of the Charles H. Wright Museum on Tuesday…

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump got his man in battleground Florida, but he watched a prominent immigration ally fall in Arizona in what was another eventful night in the 2018 midterm season. Arizona…

Iolan Bob Burns received a certificate Tuesday marking 60 years of service with the American Legion during a ceremony at the Iola American Legion Post 15. In reality, Burns has been a part of the…

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A man who broke into a Connecticut church and stole $3,000 worth of electronics felt enough remorse to leave an apology. Police say a man broke into Mount Olive AME Zion…