Allen County commissioners accepted their planning board’s recommendation to unanimously approve a permit for the construction of a 490-foot communications tower to be erected just south of the landfill near LaHarpe. The tower, the idea…

Twenty years ago April 1999 HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jim Crismas will retire Saturday after 17 years in the department, including 15 years as chief. ***** IHS students joined the city’s yellow…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Outside allies of President Donald Trump have launched a public campaign urging him to nominate former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as his next secretary of Homeland Security. That’s despite the…

Democratic members of Congress recently grilled Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over her budget proposing huge cuts to programs including the Special Olympics while calling for a $60 million hike in spending on charter schools.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists this morning revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edges of the abyss. Assembling data…

“I have determined,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote in her resignation letter Sunday night, “that it is the right time for me to step aside.” And how did she come to this determination? Well,…

Ruslan Ivanov loved being a public defender. What he didn?t love was the way his work constantly followed him ? at home, with friends and family, even on vacation. On one trip to Colorado, he…

Natalie Fuller-Rose, 47, of Pittsburg, died on Sunday, March 31, 2019. She was born March 28, 1972, in Iola, and adopted by Frank Fuller and Sheila Forman (Conn). She attended and graduated from Iola High…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward a historic fifth term as Israel’s prime minister today, with close-to-complete unofficial election results giving his right-wing Likud and other nationalist and religious parties a…

Ruby L. Cook, age 89, of Iola, died Monday, April 8, 2019, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola. She was born Sept. 10, 1929, north of Fort Scott to Claude Earnest Collins and Louisa Bessie…