The future of the Affordable Care Act will once again be up to the U.S. Supreme Court.At issue are the tax credits that 4 million low- and moderate-income Americans use to help pay their insurance…

MORAN — Karlie Stephens, 13, is a busy girl.Sunday afternoon the Moran Marmaton Valley eighth-grader was recognized by the Jones-Hardy American Legion Post for all she does, in school and for the community.The Kansas American…

MORAN — A food giveaway program to aid local families in need had its most bountiful distribution day in recent memory.The First Friday Food distribution supplied heaping boxes of fresh and non-perishable food items to…

Project 17 hosted a workshop for small businesses specializing in food products Friday morning at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.The group’s larger aim is to improve economic opportunities and quality of life for those living…

Veterans Day once was a celebration of the silencing of cannons of World War I, Lt. Col. Kenneth Weishaar told about 100 people attending the annual Veterans Day event here late Saturday morning.“Now it marks…

Allen Community College’s men’s basketball team lost both of its games in Moberly, Mo. this weekend.The Red Devils lost to Moberly Community College on Friday night 87-65. Moberly jumped to a 17-point lead heading into…

Charles Hubert Sutton, 92, Iola, died Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, at Allen County Regional Hospital.Charles was born Feb. 16, 1922, in Garnett, the fifth of seven children born to Roy Armour and Margaret Jane (Smoot)…

James E. “Jim” Butler, 50, Iola, died Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, at his home.Jim was born June 23, 1964, in Chanute, the son of Robert E. and Lorene M. (Morris) Butler. He graduated from Iola…

Stocks are trading at record highs on Wall Street.Meanwhile in Iola, a soup kitchen has opened.The disconnect is disconcerting.  Since the stock market’s nadir in 2009, inflation-adjusted figures report it has grown by 92 percent;…

With time on his hands after retiring from a 21-year career in the Army, John Jackson, a new supervisor at Iola Walmart, found graves at cemeteries in and near his hometown of Chanute fascinating. Mainly,…