Dr. Dipika Aggarwal sat in a Kansas City, Kansas, diner on a Tuesday afternoon two years ago sipping coffee and enjoying a mushroom omelet and toast. Only a month before, the neurologist had returned to work after going through surgery, radiation and...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' hospitals are worried about the upcoming flu season because they're already strained by the surge in COVID-19 cases. Wichita's four hospitals have been operating for weeks at full capacity, with limited beds and staff. A...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — After months of advocacy by activists, the Wichita City council has voted to establish a board to advise the council and city staff on environmental concerns, climate change and economic economic vitality. The council voted u...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — A police dog in southwestern Kansas has died after being sent to chase a suspect, authorities there said. The Ford County Sheriff's Office reported on its Facebook page that a police dog named Kyra was called in Monday to h...

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A man fed up with a private road in poor condition near his southwest Florida business has a novel solution: plant a banana tree in a pothole to warn motorists away. Last week, Bryan Raymond planted the tree in a stubborn poth...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies that led the charge into remote work as the pandemic unfurled are confronting a new challenge: how, when and even whether they should bring long-isolated employees back to offices that have been designed f...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as workers hoisted one of the nation's largest Confederate monuments off a pedestal where the figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a c...

One day not long ago, I watched my soon-to-be 3-year-old son jump up and down to the sound of "ho" and "hey." It's a song by The Lumineers, an American folk-rock band. The lyrics and stomp reverberate throughout the kitchen and into the house. My...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation's electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in fede...

BOSTON (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy, says assassin Sirhan Sirhan should not be released from prison, further roiling a family divide over whether the man convicted of killing her husband in California in 1968 should b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The summer that was supposed to mark America's independence from COVID-19 is instead drawing to a close with the U.S. more firmly under the tyranny of the virus, with deaths per day back up to where they were in March. The delta var...

NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly six years, Andrea Haberman's ashen and damaged wallet lay mostly untouched in a drawer at her parents' Wisconsin home, along with a partly melted cell phone, her driver's license, credit cards, checkbook and house keys. F...

Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 9-11: Woods County Fair, Livestock Show, Alva (FFA) Friday, Sept. 17: Fall Picture Day Friday, Sept. 17: High school football vs. Woodland at Mooreland, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18: Robotics kickoff Friday, Sept. 24: High...

On Sunday, Sept. 5, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Announcement: We are on Facebook, live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Call to Worship – Psalm 32...

Happy Birthday To Sept. 10: Kirt Province, Tonya Burnham, Josh King, Logan Murray Sept. 11: Jerrod Reed, Tyson Bliss Sept. 12: Ladena Thompson, Renee Thompson, Anetta McIver Sept. 13: Brett Nixon, Crystal Schroeder, Ty Harper, Wyatt Woodson, Mary...

Happy Anniversary To Sept. 15: Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Wares Sept. 22: Mr. & Mrs. C. R. Nixon Sept. 23: Mr. & Mrs. Matt Tune Sept. 25: Mr. & Mrs. Wade Walker (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 580-32...