Month: December 2018
WASHINGTON Its been more than a decade since the nations capital conducted the grand and solemn ritual of bidding a final farewell to a former president. Now Washington is caught up in elaborate preparations…
TNS Three years after forging the Paris climate agreement, world leaders are meeting again to decide how to turn emissions-cutting pledges into action. But as talks begin this week in Katowice, Poland, a clash…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) More than 1 million Kansas residents voted in the state’s general election earlier this month to set a record for a non-presidential year. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Friday…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas lawmakers will get a crash course in sports gambling this week as they consider how to capitalize on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in May that lifted a federal…
Emily M. (Boyd) Lewis, 82, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 at Kansas Christian Home in Newton. She was born at home in Latham, to Alvin Floyd Hildibrand and Vivian (Edwards) Hildibrand. She was…
James Richard (Dick) Bird, 68, Yates Center, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, at Olathe Hospice. He was born on Dec. 15, 1949, in Clifton Springs, N.Y., to Harold J. Bird and Doris A. (Shantz) Bird. …
Constance Lanelle Wright, 77, died Nov. 26, 2018, at North Richland Hills, Texas. Graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Le Roy Cemetery. Van Arsdale Funeral Home of LeRoy is in charge…
TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (AP) Residents in central Illinois on Sunday assessed the damage after rare December tornadoes, including one the day before that was a half-mile-wide, ripped roofs off homes, downed power lines and injured…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) The votes wont be cast for another four years, yet Democrats already appear likely to gain seats in Missouris Republican-dominated Legislature in 2022. The reason: a one-of-its kind redistricting initiative…
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Ken Berry, an actor and dancer who played the affable and clumsy Capt. Wilton Parmenter in the 1960s sitcom F Troop, has died. He was 85. Berry died Saturday at Providence…
