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Hays Prayer Chapel to host guest speaker Hays Prayer Chapel, 1410 Toulon Road in Catherine, will host the associate director of Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries for North America at two services on Saturday, Dec. 18.

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure from Democrats to extend a pandemic-related pause to student loan repayment, pitting the White House between its restless liberal base and a growing effort from the administration to signal that life is returning to normal after nearly two years of emergency measures.

Historic winds battered parts of the Midwest on Thursday after severe weather killed at least one person in Iowa and left nearly 350,000 people without power in Michigan and Wisconsin alone. Parts of Michigan remained under a high wind warning as of midday Thursday, but the storms were forecast to shift north of the Great Lakes, according to the National Weather Service.

MAYFIELD, Ky. – Survivors of a tornado that leveled a Kentucky candle factory, killing eight workers, filed a lawsuit claiming their employer demonstrated “flagrant indifference” by refusing to allow employees to go home early as the storm approached.

With an influx of federal funding for broadband development, the governor’s office is championing a goal to have Kansas among the leaders in high-speed internet access by the end of the decade. “We’re being bold,” said Lt.

Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series on the discontinuation of Greyhound passenger bus service in Hays. The woman—we’ll call her Thelma, though that’s not her actual name-- was traveling by bus on I-70 when she suffered a medical emergency.

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration said Thursday it is imposing new sanctions on several Chinese biotech and surveillance companies and government entities for actions in Xinjiang province, the latest step against Beijing over human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims in the country’s western region.

WASHINGTON – Army officials said Thursday that 98% of active duty personnel received at least one dose of the mandatory coronavirus vaccine as of this week’s deadline for the shots, but that more than 3,800 soldiers refused and could start being removed from the military next month.