All this mild winter weather has some catching baseball fever. That’s right, baseball. Allen County Community College’s baseball team is holding its annual winter baseball school, Feb. 11-12.  The school is for boys and girls,…

OVERLAND PARK — Challenging the top-ranked team in NJCAA Division II on its home court is never an easy task. Allen County Community College’s women weren’t able to hang with the Johnson County Community College’s…

Larry Robertson of Gas was among donors who participated Wednesday in a bloodmobile sponsored by the Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City. Sixty-four donors registered, with 59 units collected, officials said. Assisting Robertson was…

Enbridge, Inc., a Wisconsin-based company, intends to build a 600-mile 30-inch pipeline to carry crude oil from Flanagan, Ill., to Cushing, Okla., Allen County commissioners were told Tuesday. The Flanagan South project, to parallel an…

TOPEKA — Nursing home administrator Greta Wakefield called the state’s Adult Protective Services hotline after a man told her his wife would be better off dead than in the nursing home and refused to let…

HUMBOLDT — With well over an hour of commentary and explanations under their belts Wednesday evening, a dozen landowners living just outside Humboldt mostly agreed that a 10-year comprehensive plan being considered by the Planning…

City officials still are looking for the culprit to a computer failure prompting a power outage that left some area residents without electricity for more than eight hours overnight. Iola City Administrator Carl Slaugh said…

Unseasonably warm weather this winter means bad business for the city of Iola. With temperatures dipping below freezing only a handful of days since Old Man Winter arrived in mid-December, Iolans aren’t using as much…

Clifford L. Creason, 89, of Iola died Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at Tara Gardens in Iola. He was born Aug. 10, 1922, in Iola, the son of William Caleb and Glessie Mae (Turner) Creason. He…

Ruth Ann Lower, 70 died Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. She was born May 15, 1941, in Canon City, Colo. She is survived by her husband, Kent, a former Moran resident; her children, Tammy (Dave), Sherri…