PLEASANTON — Crest Middle School’s boys and girls began their basketball seasons Monday at Pleasanton.The Crest boys notched a 42-18 victory over Pleasanton Junior High. Rene Rodriguez paced the Lancers with 16 points. Austin Green…

OSWEGO — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s girls and boys opened their season Monday at Oswego.The MVJHS girls lost 37-15 in A-team play. Mackenzie Tynon fired in 12 points for the Wildcats. Lindsey McNeil had two…

Preseason tournament week is next week. All seven area high schools are in tournaments within 25 miles — most are closer — of Iola.Iola High’s Fillies and Mustangs are in the Anderson County High Preseason…

CHANUTE — Allen County Community College’s Red Devil women again came close to breaking their losing skid. But as ACCC women’s head coach Marcus Hicks said several games ago “close is not good enough.”The Red…

CHANUTE — Another slow start put Allen County Community College’s Red Devil men behind the eight-ball. That’s not where a team wants to be in Jayhawk Eastern Division conference play.Despite a 41-point performance from sophomore…

Julian Assange, the guy who founded WikiLeaks and is responsible for dumping hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic documents on the Internet, is, according to David Brooks of the New York Times, “an old-fashioned anarchist…

Howard and Cheryl Dillow had no troubles explaining why they were eager to be a part of Sunday’s Holiday Homes Tour.First of all, they love Christmas and time with family the holiday affords. Secondly, they…

Relationships — and how folks deal with ones that don’t go according to plan — are the focus for a small troupe of Allen County Community College actors when they present “Bus Stop” tonight through…

Perhaps because of his business background, Tom Miller could look at the prospective site of a new Allen County Hospital with the most dispassionate of views.“At the end of the day, it’s a business. And…

Participants can jingle all the way in the Jingle Bell Jog, the annual 5K fun run and 3K walk where participants sport small bells on their shoes. The Dec. 11 jog, presented by Allen County…