Month: February 2019

Think of soil remediation at the proposed elementary site as a five-pronged approach, says USD 257 Board of Education president Dan Willis. The process involves SJCF Architects, a firm working for the school district; the…

LE ROY ? Braelyn Falls, a senior at Southern Coffey County High School, has been selected to receive the KSHSAA Heart of the Arts Award.  The award recognizes students ?who exemplify the ideals of the…

Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy urged county commissioners to consider hiring Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc., a privately-owned company that specializes in overseeing and delivering medical care to inmates at correctional facilities. Not only would the…

Simplistic crisis plans and missing mandatory training by some Kansas schools led the Kansas Board of Education Tuesday to reinforce its suicide prevention requirements. Suicide rates in the United States have been going up for…

President Donald Trump’s candor Monday night was nothing short of endearing. “How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?” he asked the crowd. For those who could conjure up the image,…

After winning election in 2010, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, co-founder of the deeply conservative House Freedom Caucus, regularly issued scathing critiques of heavy government spending and excessive deficits. In 2015, the South Carolina Republican blasted the…

The Mustangs have found their new normal and they’re loving it.  On Tuesday night, the Iola boys (8-8) carved up an Osawatomie team, 77-53, that beat them by a point a month ago. On Saturday…

You could feel a sense of relief Tuesday evening when, for the first time in almost a month, the Iola girls’ basketball team got themselves a win.  The solid 43-20 plunking of Osawatomie broke a…

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A college professor avoided talking directly about her accusation that Virginia’s lieutenant governor sexually assaulted her, but she wasn’t shy about publicly discussing her research and thoughts on the growing number…

NEW YORK — He’s not bustin’ outta this one. When convicted cocaine kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is sentenced June 25 for a litany of crimes that will likely keep him behind bars for the…