ARKANSAS CITY — Allen Community College’s softball team lost a pair of games to Cowley on Friday. The Lady Red Devils fell 7-2 and 5-4.Allen was down 7-0 in game one, before putting two runs…

Humboldt High is losing its football coach and superintendent of schools next year. K.B. Criss is handing in his whistle to work full time at the Cedar Vale/Dexter school district as its superintendent and high…

After 19 years of coaching high school basketball, Iola High’s Bill Peeper is retiring. Peeper has coached the past five seasons at Iola High School.“It goes by quickly. Amazingly so, it seems like,” Peeper said.…

In the 1950s Leo Eckhart became my mentor.Leo ran a billiard parlor — we all called it the pool hall — in Humboldt. Along with regular pool, he had two snooker tables, with racks of…

The problem:An ultra-conservative Jewish male feels it goes against his religion to be within touching distance of a woman who is not his wife and so refuses to accept a seat next to a woman…

Since the Legislature adjourned last week for its month-long break, Rep. Kent Thompson has tried to put the state’s problems — mostly finances — out of his mind.No luck.“It’s always there,” Thompson said, referring to…

Heavy thunderstorms this week didn’t deter Leo Dever and his Shih Tzu-terrier mix, Sassy Max, from continuing their cross-country bike ride. Leo, 60, left his Ozarks home 10 years ago and has been traveling the…

For most of his life, Mike Aronson has trained to fight.As a Marine, he trained to fight the enemy. Then, for the past 20 years he trained to fight fires, and now crime with Iola’s…

Charles  E. Zahn, Command,  Master  Chief  Petty  officer,  U.S.  Navy  (retired) passed away Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Charlie was born Oct. 6, 1948, in Parsons, the son of Edward B. Zahn and…

I.H. “Cope” Copeland, 88, Parsons, died Saturday, April 4, 2015, in Parsons.  He was born in McAlester, Okla., on Sept. 5, 1926, and grew up there. He worked for the M-K-T Railroad for many years,…