If at first you don’t succeed. Try, try again.Allen County Community College’s Red Devil men had allowed leads to evaporate at home. They could not win on their home court in Jayhawk Eastern Division play.What…

The snow days of the past two weeks have made area high schools pack makeup basketball games into a very tight window for the next two weeks. All teams are attempting to get games in…

INDEPENDENCE — History was made Thursday night for Iola High’s wrestling program.Iola has been wrestling for three years but only the past two in varsity action in the Southeast Kansas League. Although the Mustangs recorded…

Rusty Wellman, 44, Humboldt, died Monday, Feb. 7, 2011.Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Penwell-Gabel Humboldt Chapel.The family will receive friends from 5 to 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.Penwell-Gabel Humboldt…

Funeral services for Ethel (Barr) Mulkey, 78, of LaHarpe, have been rescheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola. Burial will follow in Mount Hope Cemetery in Humboldt.The family will…

Without the messy nuisance of public debate, Gov. Sam Brownback issued an executive order abolishing the Kansas Arts Commission and transferring its duties to the Kansas Historical Society. Gov. Brownback also proposed creation of a…

Stephanie McDonald snipped thorns from the stems of red roses at Duane’s Flowers, 5 N. Jefferson, Wednesday morning.There wasn’t much else to do, with the second siege of winter keeping most shoppers at home. But,…

By their meeting Tuesday night, Allen County Hospital trustees had only half of the expected land appraisals in hand for the future site of the new hospital.The delay helps puts the project at least one…

When the temperature dipped to 24 degrees below zero at Iola’s water plant between 5 and 6 o’clock this morning, it was the coldest temperature ever recorded here.Register weather records dating to 1900 show the…

As Egypt’s world falls apart, is the ground under the feet of the Saudis beginning to shake?A very small protest group assembled in Dubai, capital of the United Arab Emirates, this week to demand the…