It’s difficult to stick to a regular sleep schedule when you work nights, testified five employees at Humboldt’s Monarch Cement plant. “I’m almost constantly drained,” said Ed Splechter, a swing shift production operator who works…

Katrina Springer and sons Declan, 20 months, and Rohan, 9, enjoy a wide selection of food this morning at the Lenten breakfast at St. John’s Parish Center. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

Voter fraud, the cause célèbre of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, is on trial this week in federal court in Kansas City.Kobach maintains it’s only by the state’s strict oversight that illegal immigrants are…

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…

MORAN — Dierks Kegler, 9, will travel to Denver, March 15-17, to compete in the Regional Elks Hoops Shoot competition.Kegler, a fourth-grader at Marmaton Valley Elementary School, qualified by winning in his age category at…

Dear editor,I would like to provide additional information to Saturday’s story about the history of Gas. In a picture shown at the program, it was my Uncle Oliver, my Grandmother Charlotte and my Dad, Arthur…

Myrtle Ilean Shepard Francis, 91, formerly of Colony, died Sunday, March 4, 2018, at Greystone Residential Care in Iola.Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola.…

William Edward Rolf was welcomed into the world by his parents Edward and Lorena (Gleue) Rolf on April 17, 1938, on their farm south of Aliceville. The family moved to the current Rolf farm north…

Solomon Aaron (Sol) Evans, 84, of Yates Center, passed away on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at Windsor Place, Iola.Sol was born on April 11, 1933, in Park Hill, Okla., to Carmon N. Evans and Ora…

Mary Mildred Haen, 97, of Piqua, passed away on Friday, March 2, 2018, at Greystone Assisted Living in Iola.Mary was born to Joseph A. Bruggeman and Hattie Rose Wolz Bruggeman on July 23, 1920, at…