Organizers of the 2020 Adopt-A-Child program are bracing for higher numbers of folks in need this holiday season. Parents or guardians may sign up their children at Iola’s First Baptist Church, 801 N. Cottonwood St.,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages and benefits for U.S. workers grew slowly this summer as employers sought to hold the line on pay gains in the midst of the pandemic.  U.S. workers’ total compensation rose 0.5%…

Dear Dr. Roach: Where should the top of my compression stocking be? I was told by the salespeople that the top should be about two inches below the bend in the knee. But there is…

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Sam Darnold and the New York Jets are likely to be without their top two wide receivers when they play the Chiefs in Kansas City on Sunday. Coach Adam Gase…

Dear Carolyn: Halloween costuming seems to have gotten more complex over the years with a number of people being offended for reasons I cannot comprehend. Additionally, I have two foreign exchange students living with me…

By this Tuesday or Wednesday Kansans will likely have a new U.S. Senator. For most of the last century, we could simply assume that the state would elect the Republican nominee, especially if the candidate…

Most motorists can drive from El Dorado to Emporia on the Kansas Turnpike and never realize that they are traversing the last significant stand of tallgrass prairie, not only in North America but in the…

As president, Donald Trump has accomplished some of his agenda. He pushed for a big tax cut to juice the economy, he has cut regulation and has restricted immigration (although there is no wall paid…

EDINBERG, Texas (AP) — Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016 — an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal laws and long-standing custom generally leave the U.S. military out of the election process. But President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated warnings about widespread voting irregularities have raised questions about a possible military…