Month: July 2021

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mecole Hardman knows the exhilaration of walking off the field as a Super Bowl champion. Last February, he and his Kansas City Chiefs teammates also experienced the bitter disappointment of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — During emotional, tense and sometimes angry testimony, four police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 vividly recalled the violence they endured while fighting against a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will be trying to connect with blue-collar workers Wednesday when he travels to a truck factory in Pennsylvania to advocate for government investments and clean energy as ways to…

Richard Vincent (Vince) Falbo, age 71, of Colony, passed away at his residence on Sunday, July 25, 2021. He was born June 30, 1950, in Sacramento, Calif., to Vincent C. Falbo and Rose M. (Laskowski)…

Marjorie Louise “Marge” Stillings, 94, of Baldwin City, died Friday, July 23, 2021, in Baldwin City. Marjorie was born on her parents homestead in rural McPherson, on Feb. 7, 1927, a daughter of Mae Ruth…

Edward “Ed” Thomas Stokes, age 67, passed away Friday, July 23, 2021, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.  Ed was born August 13, 1953, to Harlen B. and Bessie “Revona” Odam Stokes in…

Nov. 3, 2020, saw the highest turnout of voters in U.S. history. Now, at least 18 state legislatures have passed laws to reduce voter turnout and restrict U.S. citizens’ access to their constitutionally guaranteed right…

Gene Suellentrop’s high-speed chase on Interstate 70 is sure getting slow-played in the courts. After his arrest last March for DUI, high-speed wrong-way driving and attempting to elude law enforcement, Suellentrop’s Kansas Senate colleagues said…

The virus is not behind us. It is still in lots of us. That’s becoming clearer, more troubling and more frustrating by the day. The troubling part, of course, is that the number of deaths…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jorge Soler hit two home runs for the second straight game and the Kansas City Royals extended their winning streak to six games with a 4-3 win over the Chicago…