On November 28, 1892, when all hope of hitting oil was seemingly lost after 22 days of dry drills, the Norman Number 1 well finally hit oil in Neodesha. This well, located in a garden plot of a local blacksmith, would become the first commercial oil well in Kansas.

(StatePoint) No matter the length of a vacation, students often have some catching up to do upon their return to school. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. Check out these five spring break ideas that will keep young minds active and engaged, for a smooth transition back to the classroom.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden took office 13 months ago vowing to halt the COVID-19 pandemic, improve the economy, soften America's calcifying partisan division, restore faith in Washington's leadership on the world stage and prove that democracies can function and deliver.

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While living in California, I traveled to Colorado on business, booked into a nice hotel and settled in to get ready for a meeting the following morning. I woke to snow and temps in the low 30s. There I was in opentoed shoes and a light sweater, trying to break through some kind of frozen material on the car's windshield that looked a lot like ice and snow.

Kansas care providers and advocates are working to find solutions addressing workforce issues exacerbated by the pandemic, further complicating access to services for elderly patients. The Kansas Senior Care Task Force heard Friday from representatives of health care organizations and providers on the issue faced in the senior care arena and where solutions may be found.

Many parents recall struggling with math at one point or another in their academic careers. According to PBS, little is known about the neurobiological or environmental causes of math disabilities. Many experts attribute them to various deficits in a handful of skill types, including difficulties connecting the relationship between numbers and the quantities they represent and an incomplete understanding of the language of math.

LOS ANGELES — Are you an expert in preserving historical items and looking for corroded and lead paint-covered lifeboats? Well, Long Beach has an opportunity for you. The city of Long Beach is looking for bidders — museums, preservation groups or developers — interested in buying one or all 20 of the Queen Mary’s lifeboats as it kicks off a $5 million repair project, officials said.

Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day made me feel sugar-sweet and bitter-blue after reviewing my heart's history. The only cure for what ailed me was to pick the presidents that are my best valentines.

A recent study from researchers at The Ohio State University found that the disparity between the number of words young children who are frequently read to have heard compared to those who have not been read to is significant. The study first appeared online in the Journal of Development and Behavioral Pediatrics and found that young children whose parents read them five books a day entered kindergarten having heard roughly 1.48 million words. By comparison, children whose parents never read to them had heard just over 4,600 words by the time they entered kindergarten. Even children who are read to daily hear significantly fewer words than children whose parents read them five books a day. Such children hear just under 300,000 words prior to entering kindergarten.