MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High hosted Uniontown and Crest Thursday to wrap up the basketball season.Marmaton Valley’s girls beat Crest 29-8 and Uniontown 21-9.  The Wildcat A-team finished with an 8-5 record.Uniontown defeated Crest…

OSWEGO — Head coach Travis Hermreck’s analysis of Crest High’s contest Friday boiled down to two key points.“We played very poorly,” the Lancer boys head coach said. “They did not.”Oswego got the early jump and…

BUFFALO — In the first of three road trips of the week, Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcat basketball teams swept a doubleheader against Altoona-Midway High Monday.The Wildcat girls used a press in the fourth quarter to…

NEODESHA — There was no room for a letdown in a closely contested Tri-Valley League game between Humboldt High’s Cubs and their hosts Monday night.But the Cubs did have a letdown. They trailed Neodesha High’s…

Playing their final game at home Monday, Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade A-team broke open a close game with an 18-7 run in the fourth quarter. The Ponies posted a 39-30 win over visiting Pittsburg Community…

These seven items are just a sample of those on the auction block for the annual Neosho Valley Chapter of Ducks Unlimited banquet and auction Feb. 26. Advance tickets are on sale until Friday for…

Former Yates Center resident Cecil Donald Sellers, 93, of Ottumwa, Iowa, died Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, at the Good Samaritan Society in Ottumwa.Graveside services were this afternoon at Yates Center Cemetery in Yates Center.  Memorials…

Ronald E. “Ron” Yelm, 67, of Mound Valley, died Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, Mo.He was born July 30, 1943, in Bell, Calif., to John V. and Mary L. (Collinsworth)…

Egypt’s people had at least two reasons to drive Hosni Mubarak out of power: (1) He was a dictator who denied Egyptians basic human and political rights; (2) Egypt was a failed state that kept…

Area students came away as winners at Sunday’s College Goal Sunday at Allen County Community College.And while four area students won $500 scholarships in a drawing, all were rewarded with valuable information as to how…