Month: March 2019

BRUSSELS (AP) ? Europe?s antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time in less than two years, ordering the tech giant to pay $1.7 billion for freezing out rivals in…

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The man believed to be the last Kansas City-area resident to survive the attack at Pearl Harbor has died. WDAF-TV reports that 96-year-old Dorwin Lamkin of Overland Park died March…

Online sports magazine Sports In Kansas released its all-state basketball selections this week and while only two area athletes made either the first or second team, a multitude of others earned honorable mention selection.  Yates…

SALT LAKE CITY — From about the instant Kansas was assigned a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional and aligned with Northeastern for its first-round game on Thursday at Vivint Smart Home…

Reigning national champion Villanova will be in action along with Michigan, the runner-up from a year ago, while Belmont and Murray State open the NCAA Tournament as trendy upset picks. There’s Kansas and Michigan State…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid had 37 points, 22 rebounds and a key block on Kyrie Irving with 35 seconds remaining, and Jimmy Butler scored 15 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter to…

Today is Thursday, March 21, the 80th day of 2019.  Today’s Highlight in History: On March 21, 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack…

Mammography services at Allen County Regional Hospital could return this fall, CEO Tony Thompson said.  The hospital lost accreditation of its mammography services in May 2017, when the American College of Radiology (ACR), acting on…

The Allen County Fair Association is asking commissioners to fund a $9,000 increase in the group’s annual operating budget.  The county currently provides the fair association $11,000 per year. If the commission bumps that figure…

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Federal prosecutors are seeking potential deals with some of the wealthy parents charged in the sweeping college admissions scandal as investigators continue to broaden the case, according to multiple sources with…