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The Alfalfa County commissioners sorted through and signed their monthly appropriations and the alcohol beverage tax allocation Monday. Cathy Hagen-Sheik, filling in for county clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger, joined Mike Roach, Jay Hague and Marvin...

Dallas Hunt will take the helm of the boys’ basketball program. “We are very excited to welcome Coach Hunt to Burlington,” Superintendent Kevin Brown said. “It is an exciting time for Burlington basketball, and we believe we found the right coach t...

The financial situation really does seem to be turning around at Cherokee School District. At the board meeting Monday, April 4, during discussion of the activity fund and treasurer's reports, Superintendent Bryce Schanbacher reminded the board that...

The wait is over. Kiowa District Hospital (KDH) Childcare is tentatively set to open April 15. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) was scheduled to visit the childcare facility this Wednesday, KDH CEO/CFO Janell Goodno confirmed....

The people who showed up for a special meeting of the Kiowa City Council were not too happy when they could not hold the meeting due to lack of a quorum. City Administrator Sam Demel was present along with council members Janet Robison, Jason...

Funeral services for Peter Christopher Lewis will be 2 p.m. Thursday, April 7, 2022, at the Alva Wesleyan Church with Pastor Paul Kirk officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma State Treasurer Randy McDaniel says revenue collections in March were up nearly 23% from a year earlier, pushed by an expanding economy, rising wages and inflation. McDaniel on Wednesday said the state collected $1.38 b...

U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their histories operating boarding schools for Native Americans. Native children were forced to attend these schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. The schools broke down students'...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new report has found that Wichita law enforcement officers weren't adequately punished for joking about police violence and exchanging racist comments and images in a series of text messages. The Wichita Citizen's Review B...

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 9-year-old boy was shot and wounded while playing with a gun with his 11-year-old brother. The Junction City police department said in a news release that the shooting happened Tuesday. Police said the 9...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas physician-legislator who has acknowledged that he is under investigation by the state medical board after supporting the deworming drug ivermectin is instructing doctors on COVID-19 treatment in a letter. The Wichita E...

PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police are investigating the theft of a 7-foot-tall (2.13 meter-tall) metal sasquatch lawn ornament from a home in southern Michigan. The item crafted from sheet metal was stolen from a home in St. Joseph County's Park T...

ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of the besieged port city of Mariupol has put the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000. Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to gather evidence of Russian atrocities and braces for what could become a c...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state will provide migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border bus charters to Washington, D.C. The move announced Wednesday amounts to a taunt at President Joe Biden and Congress over what the R...

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who moved into his daughter's dorm at Sarah Lawrence College and charmed her schoolmates has been convicted of charges that he exploited the close-knit group of friends for power, cash and sex. Lawrence Ray was convicted W...