Iola High’s junior varsity volleyball team lost twice at home Tuesday.The Fillies dropped a 25-7, 25-12 decision to Nevada, Mo., then fell 25-20, 25-5 to Girard.“In the match with Nevada, the girls couldn’t get past…

How Iola High’s Fillies finished, even in a loss, was  a good sign for their head coach Jodi Grover.The Fillies lost two non-league matches at home Tuesday. Grover said she saw signs of confidence being…

HUMBOLDT — Rain did not keep the racers or fans away from Humboldt Speedway’s go-kart races Sunday afternoon. There were 26 competitors on the track.Jaymond Rice captured first in the 5-8-year-old class with Easton Reynolds…

CANEY — Uniontown High’s Sabrena McAnulty had the comfort of teammates when she competed at the 2009 Kansas Class 3-2-1A Girls’ State Golf Tournament.McAnulty, a junior, was the lone Uniontown golfer to qualify for the…

Voters in three Allen County townships will have the option of making them little more than lines on a map at the general election Nov. 2.Residents of Carlyle, Cottage Grove and Elm townships will be…

If cold and uncooperative weather develops early this winter, the new bridge on old U.S. 169 just north of the Allen-Neosho counties line might not open until spring.The bridge’s concrete deck was poured two weeks…

A new Kansas law requiring 116 hours of continuing education every two years for first responders and emergency medical technicians may mean “we’ll lose some of them,” Jason Nelson, Allen County ambulance director, told county…

Allen County commissioners are ready to act if voters give the nod for a new hospital.At Tuesday’s meeting commissioners discussed the responsibilities of a board of trustees to oversee the hospital, once it is freed…

Iola officials say Johnny Womack has been making a mess.He calls it making a living.Womack, who owns several pieces of heavy industrial equipment on the abandoned railroad corridor near U.S. 54 in west Iola, was…

But some of his friends are Wayne Francis doesn’t just pay lip service to the art of ventriloquism.Honing the craft takes years of practice, not just learning to talk without moving your lips, he said.“When…