With Christmas Eve rapidly approaching, Santa Claus squeezed in another opportunity Saturday in LaHarpe to visit with youngsters to get their wish lists prior to D (as in Delivery) Day. 

Landmark Bank hosted a customer appreciation lunch Friday at its Kincaid location. Landmark, which has operated in Kincaid since 2013, will close the branch at the end of the year. Bank employees had no information…

Sitting in a tree stand, Charlene Gawronski is decked out in camo on Michigan’s opening day of the deer firearm season. Gunshots ring nearby, but three hours pass without any deer sightings. After 50 years…

Iola Elementary School’s second- and fifth-graders presented “Christmas at the Movies” Thursday evening at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Students took turns explaining the story behind each song before they sang such classics as “You’re…

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) was admitted to a hospital for evaluation after she sustained an injury during an official engagement while traveling with a bipartisan congressional delegation in Luxembourg, according to her…

CHANUTE — Rose Smalley knows what it means to struggle. After receiving services from Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center over the past two years, Smalley wanted to find a way to help others. She organized…

Russia launched a massive air-strike against western Ukraine on Friday in what Kyiv described as one of the largest attacks on its power infrastructure since the war started. Moscow forces fired almost 200 drones and…

TOPEKA — School districts across Kansas will receive a 20-page report containing guidance on cell phones that recommends daytime cell phone bans, mental health awareness and bolstered parental oversight. The Kansas State Board of Education…

DAMASCUS (AP) — Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday in Damascus’ historic main mosque for the first Muslim Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, while giant crowds celebrated in the capital’s largest square.…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature’s budget committee chairs pushed back Wednesday against the notion of implementing a road usage fee to create a more sustainable state funding for transportation system upgrades. The Kansas Department of…