David Tepper’s hedge fund earned him $4 billion last year, to rank him first at the top of 25 fund managers who earn-ed, collectively, more than $25 billion in fees and investment gains.Tepper’s individual earnings…

SEDAN — Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcat softball team  claimed a second-place trophy in a small tournament hosted by Sedan High School Thursday.After making quick work of Sedan in a run-rule, four-inning game, the Wildcats went…

LYNDON —  Yates Center High’s Donnie Bennett, Dylan Sicka and Brae Adams captured gold medals Thursday at the Lyndon High Spring Relays.Bennett won both hurdle races. He ran the 100-meter high hurdles in 18.54 seconds…

RICHMOND — Opening the 2010 track season strong were Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats.The Wildcat squads competed at Thursday’s Central Heights High Invitational. The Wildcat boys finished fifth out of 11 teams.“The kids all performed very…

BURLINGTON — It’s easier to list the events the Iola Middle School eighth-grade boys did not win Thursday at the Burlington Middle School track meet.The eighth-grade Pony boys won every race but the hurdles and…

ALTAMONT — A lack of depth hurt Iola High’s Fillies because two Fillies got hurt Thursday.When Jazmyne Honeycutt and Molly Maxwell came up injured almost in back-to-back races, IHS head coach Marvin Smith had to…

HUMBOLDT — Today’s thunderstorm deposited enough rain to postpone Humboldt Speedway’s opening night of races.Races will run Saturday. Gates open at 5 p.m. with races starting at 7.

COFFEYVILLE — Battling the strong, windy conditions and some arm fatigue among pitchers, Iola High’s Mustangs found ways to win Thursday.The Mustangs swept a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader against host Coffeyville’s Field Kindley High School.…

ALTAMONT — Winning five events helped boost Iola High’s Mustangs to a team title in their first track meet of the 2010 season.The Mustangs scored 106 points in winning the Labette County Invitational  Thursday. Chanute…

Neil Westervelt had just stepped from the main M & W Manufacturing building — one of four in the complex — to beckon an employee in a smaller building to come to where he’d be…