John C. Foreman Jr., 76, of Parsons, passed away at 7:48 a.m., Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at the Parsons Presbyterian Manor. He ...

James “Jim” Joseph Dent, 81, of Walnut, passed away on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at Prairie Mission Retirement Village at St.

Charles W. “Charlie” Smith, Jr., 80, of Parsons, passed away at 4:55 a.m., Thursday, April 23, 2026 at his home. He was born ...

Harold LeRoy “Pete” Peterson, 95, of Mound Valley, passed away and went to his farm in Heaven at 1:44 p.m., Thursday, May 7, ...

John Michael “Mike” Baze, 83, of Celina, Texas, and a native of Parsons, passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends on April 22, 2026. He was born in Parsons on March 14, 1943 to John D.

Glen Ferguson, 74, of Parsons, died Monday. morning at around 4:30 a.m. due to cancer. Jeff was born on Oct. 13th, 1951 in.

Jo Dee Hardman Rye passed away on April 28, 2026 at her home. Jo Dee was born on Oct. 24, 1955 in Parsons, Kansas to Leroy and Mildred “Mid” (Puckett) Hardman. Jo Dee graduated from Parsons High ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 49-year-old woman who recently had COVID. When I was sick with it, I lost my sense of taste and smell. I no longer have COVID, but I still have a stuffy nose with no sense of ...

Sean Frye/Sun Photos TOP: Frank O’Banion (left) and Kinsley Lassen (right) cozy up to each other during the prologue of “Almost, Maine,” the latest production from the Labette County High School ...

In the epilogue of “Kansas Matters: 21st-century Writers on the Sunflower State,” which I co-edited with Thomas Fox Averill, I wrote that Kansas is “a place wild with stories, overrun with strange and ...