Federal awards to states for expanding broadband access are out, and U.S. senators are rushing to brag about the money their states will receive, including those like Texas Republican John Cornyn and others who opposed…

The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority deemed the boost that universities give some applicants purely on the basis of their ethnicity or…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has faced down the biggest threat his regime has confronted in more than two decades in power. For now. As details about the dramatic mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin — the…

Tom and Monica Norris, owners of 101.5 KIKS and 1370 / 99.3 KIOL Radio for the past 16 years, announced Friday they have sold Iola Radio to Ad Astra Per Aspera Broadcasting. The changeover took…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia’s armed forces are bruised but by no means beaten in the war in Ukraine, a top NATO military officer said Monday, as he laid out the biggest revamp to the organization’s…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River during a bridge collapse and train derailment could be seen on islands and riverbanks downstream from Yellowstone National Park a week…

(With all due apologies to Paul Harvey.) Louise Harrison Caldwell was used to being a fish out of water. She grew up in England, fell in love and married an engineer for a coal mining…

BALTIMORE (AP) — More than one person is suspected of opening fire during a holiday weekend block party in Baltimore that killed two people and wounded 28 others, many of them under 18, police said…

PITTSBURG — The Iola AA American Legion Indians went 2-1 at the MOKAN Legion Showdown in Pittsburg over the weekend.  The Indians (19-5) used some dominant pitching in both their victories as Logan Page and…

An eighth gunshot victim from a weekend shooting at a Kansas nightclub has been confirmed, police said Monday, bringing the total number of people hurt to 10. Wichita police had originally reported seven people with…