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Chicken, along with vegetables and fruits rich in antioxidants, make up a diet that may prevent Alzheimer’s, wife Beverly relayed the other night, breaking my concentration on a piece about Scotland Yard.We both were into…

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is testing the patience, and credulity, of Americans when he says — under oath — he has no memory of a meeting with campaign staffer George Papadopoulos until its news…

When the stock market crashed in 1929, millions were thrown out of work. Newly elected President Herbert Hoover often bore the brunt of the blame, but a multitude of factors occurred well before the Oct.…

James Madison and other Founding Fathers had a role, albeit it 230 years ago, in today’s hot-button issue — gun control.In the 1787-88 struggle to ratify the U.S. Constitution, debate raged to the point some…

The families that we are born into is luck of the draw. We have nothing to do with it.Some of us are born into families that are financially stable, everyone’s personalities mesh pretty well, and…

I was shocked that my dad stood up when the Rev. Tom Nyquist requested veterans stand and be recognized at that morning’s service. I was just a girl but never knew my father had served…

Today a good many folks will pause to recognize service a multitude of military men and women have given to the country.My grandfather, Sherman Oliphant, an unassuming fellow who grew up in the hills of…

Here’s an opportunity for EDP Renewables to give the Moran area a leg up.EDP’s proposal to install as many as 60 wind turbines has successfully worked its way through several meetings of the Allen County…

It’s a fair warning in the world of technology to never get comfortable with a certain product or program because in the blink of an eye it will be obsolete. Nowhere has this been more…

It’s unsettling when a Kansas lawmaker wants to weaken, not strengthen, the word of the law. That’s the goal of Rep. Ron Ryckman, R-Olathe, in an effort to weasel out of the state’s obligation to…