WICHITA — The Kansas Turnpike Authority announces bids have been approved and contracts awarded on two upcoming Turnpike projects. Contract 7800 to remove an overhead KTA bridge at mile marker 55.507, and construct improvements on Main Street in Andover, KS, was awarded to Dondlinger & Sons Construction Co., Wichita, KS, for $370,069.90.
By The Associated Press MOSCOW Russia’s state communications watchdog has ordered to completely block access to Facebook in Russia amid the tensions over the war in Ukraine. The agency, Roskomnadzor, said Friday it decided to cut access to Facebook over its alleged “discrimination” of the Russian media and state information resources.
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MCPHERSON – Finally, some good news for McPherson County and the Covid pandemic as the newest numbers released by the McPherson County Health Department (MCHD) on Friday morning shows just 22 new positive cases of Covid in the past seven days.
TOWANDA, Kansas – Sometimes, when things aren’t going well, a team can rely on a lone bright spot to come through. And on Friday night in Towanda, the eighth-ranked 4A McPherson boys basketball team did just that.
TOPEKA — Veterinarian Anna Hickert found a home in central Kansas under a program at Kansas State University allowing graduates to work off college loans in exchange for serving in a rural community starved for big-animal vets.
The top six and seven of the top nine teams in the AP Top 25 lost on the same day last week, an unprecedented day of chaos that led to some big changes in this week’s poll everywhere but at the top.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Davion Warren and 12th-ranked Texas Tech had a perfect ending at home. Warren’s 23 points included the go-ahead basket with 1:05 left, and the Red Raiders finished undefeated on their home court with a 73-68 win over Kansas State in a back-and-forth game Monday night.
SALINA, Kansas – On Saturday, McPherson’s Treyton Pelnar placed fifth in the 126-pound class of the KSHSAA 4A state wrestling tournament in Salina to record a season record of 36-9. Pelnar won his first two bouts in Friday’s action then lost in the semifinals.
TOWANDA, Kansas – On Friday night, the McPherson girls basketball team picked up right where it left off in a 57-26 rout of Circle in Towanda after clinching its 15th Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Division III title on Tuesday.