Missourians have spoken — they want Medicaid expansion. The courts have spoken — Missouri must open Medicaid to an estimated 275,000 more of our neighbors who need help. Lawmakers, worried about the cost, have argued…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Monday the seven-day average of daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. was higher than last summer’s peak, which occurred months before any vaccines were…

Point guards got big money to open the NBA’s free agency period. Kyle Lowry is headed to the Miami Heat, Lonzo Ball is on his way to the Chicago Bulls, while Phoenix’s Chris Paul and…

SURFSIDE, Fla. — Scraped clean of tons of rubble late last month, the bare garage floor of Champlain Towers South appears to rule out at least one early suspect in its catastrophic collapse. There were…

Putting things away after the fair reminded me of how stuff just seems to multiply and collect. Statements such as, “We might need that someday,” repeatedly come to mind. Yes, we were sorting through things…

This week’s Farmers’ Market offers a jam-packed lineup.  It is ACMAT Family Safety Night and National Farmers’ Market week. At today’s market, from 1 to 4 p.m. at 700 N. State Street, Iola, are cabbage,…

TOKYO (AP) — When brash Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm led the field to the starting line on a steamy afternoon at Olympic Stadium, he and his seven opponents had every reason to expect they’d be…

FORT SCOTT (AP) — Fort Scott National Historic Site will be conducting a geophysical survey to better understand how the fort looked in the 1840s. A four-person crew from the Nebraska-based Midwest Archeological Center will…

TOKYO (AP) — Tamyra Mensah-Stock of the United States defeated Blessing Oborududu of Nigeria 4-1 in the women’s 68-kilogram freestyle wrestling final to claim the second Olympic gold medal ever for an American female wrestler.…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted an 84-year-old man of illegal weapons possession for having a personal arsenal that included a Panther tank, a flak cannon and multiple other items of World…