“This isn’t a protest,” a man yelled into a reporter’s microphone, “this is a revolution.”  “I tell the Arab world to stand with us until we win our freedom,” said Khaled Yusuf, a cleric from…

Iola, Humboldt, Yates Center and Southern Coffey County high school basketball teams will play games tonight. School is back in session for Iola, Humboldt and Yates Center after three days off because of wintry weather.Southern…

Over the years it has been suggested to me to do a “Where Are They Now?” series. Not quite ready to do that yet simply because I don’t have the time to do the work.…

Twenty courthouse employees got a two-day weather-imposed furlough Tuesday and Wednesday, while Allen County’s other 80 employees worked, many doing extended duty in severe weather conditions.The courthouse was closed when the winter storm hit and…

Don’t put your trash out just yet. For now, City of Iola garbage trucks are patrolling alleyways just as a means of making tracks for Monday’s expected collection.City alleys are too narrow to accommodate the…

Bill and Patty Eisenbart and daughter, Abby, 18, escaped uninjured when their home west of Iola, 1475 400 St., caught fire early Tuesday morning.“She saved our lives,” Patty Eisenbart said of Abby.A return air vent…

Dave Fontaine awoke at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday to find the temperature on the south side of zero and a wind chill much below that.While most would take that as a signal to snuggle even deeper…

Two Kansas hunter education classes are scheduled for Iola in March. The hunter education classes are sponsored by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and taught by volunteer instructors.“Over the past year I have…

Emmett Franklin “Frank” Coble, 79, Chanute, died Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, at his home.He was born in Graff, Mo., on July 11, 1931, the son of Ruel Emet and Florence G. (McCoskey) Coble.He served in…

Verna Mae Devine, 84, Iola, died Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola.She was born Oct. 16, 1926, in Humboldt, the daughter of William Fred and Mary Estes (Collison) Moore.She is…