Month: December 2018
The first of what are expected to be several road failures caused by heavy loads carried to EDP Renewal wind farm construction sites in northeast Allen County occurred this week. Mitch Garner, director of Public…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Over the past two years, the breadbasket of America has planted less and less wheat. Acres planted to wheat in 2017 and 2018 neared 100-year lows, with the 7.7 million wheat…
Iola High School student Emmie Brant, center, tries her hand at taking a persons blood pressure as part of a shadowing project at Yates Center Medical Clinic, provided by Coffey Health System of Burlington. Brant…
WALL, N.J. (AP) A New Jersey man has been reunited with his dog, more than a year after the pooch was stolen from his car. The dog-napping happened in Virginia when the owner was…
WASHINGTON (AP) The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) Dozens of drivers crashed or needed help after heavy snow and strong winds created treacherous whiteout conditions in western Kansas. Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Stephen Larow says the agency responded to…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Authorities have arrested several gang members and seized eight firearms after two people were wounded in a gang-related shooting in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports that the…
EAST VINCENT TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) Authorities say an armed man who held off SWAT members for 10 hours surrendered after one of them sang him a Christmas carol. Nathaniel Lewis, of Chester County, Pennsylvania,…
Veta Joan Upton, 94, of Independence, Mo., formerly of Kansas City, Kan., died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Memorial services will be at a later date in Kincaid. Joan was born July 13, 1924, in Kincaid,…
WASHINGTON (AP) Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least…
