WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators hoisted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package over another hurdle late Sunday, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans pushing it closer to passage despite a few holdouts trying to derail one…

Earth’s climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence and Douglas County will require employees and visitors to wear masks inside their buildings, adding to the local mandates aimed at controlling the more contagious COVID-19 delta variant. The city…

HUMBOLDT — The USMTS Modified Tour brought more than 50 racers from across the country when it paid its annual visit to Humboldt Speedway last weekend. This season, Jake O’Neil from Tucson was the big…

TOKYO — A tropical storm swept into the city before dawn, gusts of wind bringing heavy clouds and drenching rain, as if the Tokyo Olympics didn’t have enough problems. The COVID-19 pandemic had forced a…

Many of the staff and residents in Shunda Whitfield’s St. Louis County, Missouri, nursing home were sick before they even realized what was going on.  It was April 2020, and masks weren’t yet standard practice.…

Theodore C. Minor, 75, of Yates Center, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, at St. Francis hospital in Wichita. Ted was born on April 20, 1946, in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to Theodore F. Minor…

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Peyton’s Place is now in Canton at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The only five-time NFL MVP and a two-time Super Bowl winner who left the game five years ago…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nicky Lopez hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning after a long rain delay and the Kansas City Royals averted a three-game sweep, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 on…

Of all U.S. presidents in recent memory, Joe Biden comes closest to representing working class Americans.  That’s because those are his roots. Biden is the first president since Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989, to not have an…