Two local teenagers were charged with arson Wednesday, following the Monday afternoon fire that destroyed an Iola garage owned by Glen and Betty Cunningham.Chance Ayers, 16, and Dylan C. Bryan, 15, were charged as juveniles…

HUMBOLDT — Extraterritorial zoning — zoning of area outside the city limits — is not a precursor of annexation or higher taxes.That was the message Humboldt City Attorney Fred Works gave about 40 area residents,…

Dorothy A. Swanson, 82, of Yates Center died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, in Yates Center.Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Friends Home Lutheran Church in Savonburg. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 7:30…

Theonilla B. Lutz, 93, of Garnett, sister of Mary Drum and her husband, Don, of Westphalia, died Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, at Golden Heights in GarnettMass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m. Saturday…

Eula Mae Simpson, 88, of Quinter and formerly of Colony died Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, at Gove County Medical Center in Quinter.She was born Aug. 21, 1922, in Welda, to James and Alma (Hyde) Tinsley.…

(Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts of Sports in Review 2010.) July3 — Neil Crane is a Hall of Famer. Along with a throng of others, Crane of Iola was inducted into…

Spotting Kansas City, Kan., Community College’s Blue Devils eight points to open the game Wednesday did not help Allen County Community College’s Red Devil women. Mired in a long losing streak, the Red Devils needed…

Two things their coach said Allen County Community College’s Red Devil men needed to do to be successful didn’t happen Wednesday night.“We have to keep game scores in the 60s and 70s to have the…

A couple of $1 tickets bearing the magic numbers were sold in the Mega Millions lottery that delivered nearly $335 million to the winners who had not yet been identified when this was written.Thousands upon…

The Obama administration surrendered to Sarah Palin politics this week and eliminated a reference to end-of-life planning in a new set of Medicare regulations.The regulation eliminated would allow a doctor to talk to a patient…