A Texas-sized turnout greeted Tuesday’s midterm elections.Democratic voters there surged above 1 million — the first time since 1994 — and female candidates had strong showings up and down the ballot.Breaking 25 years of apathy,…

The Allen County softball team dropped their home conference openers Wednesday afternoon. The Lady Devils faced Highland Community College and fell 21-10 in the first game and 14-3 in the second game. The losses move…

The Southern Coffey County boys saw their season come to an end Wednesday afternoon in the opening round of the 1A-I State Tournament at Gross Memorial Coliseum in Hays. The Titans fell 49-35 to St.…

Jerry Lee Whitworth, 75, passed away surrounded by his family at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola on Sunday, March 4, 2018.Jerry was born on Jan. 18, 1943, in El Dorado, Ark., the son of…

Wilma Orvetta Scheer, 64, Iola, went home to be with the Lord and Bill, the love of her life, on Monday, March 5, 2018. She was born Jan. 8, 1954, in Iola, to Clyde and…

Daniel “Dan” Edward Creitz, 81, of Iola, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, March 5, 2018, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola.Dan was born on July 8, 1936, in Emporia, to Dale P. Creitz and Opal…

The origins of flight, and the inventors of the airplane, are the focus of the ongoing Iola Reads project.“The Wright Brothers” by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough, is the Winter 2018 Iola Reads focus.McCullough’s…

Cindy Brant knows when you’ve been sleeping. And she knows when you’re awake.Brant spends her nights monitoring patients in the sleep lab at Allen County Regional Hospital and at labs in the Kansas City area.…

Brian FitzGerald and McCormack have written many Irish songs that ring as true as the ancient ballads of Finn McCool’s time and yet, as Irish-Americans, their sound carries a musical distillation that rings Irish but…

The 3rd District vacancy on the Allen County Commission, created by the resignation of Jim Talkington, now has interest of seven individuals. Steve French, a former Iola councilman and local contractor, joined the list of…