Iola High School students participating in Forensics entertained 17 members of the Allen County Area Retired School Personnel on Wednesday. Students were Sadrie Overall, Gaby Lampe, Katie Weide, Lexie Vega and River Hess. Linda Johnson…

HUMBOLDT — Strains of music will fill Humboldt’s downtown square Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5 to support the Humboldt Ministerial Alliance’s food pantry. Brenda Clark will sing gospel and country songs while Judy Parham…

Kathy Hale of Savonburg Public Library, and Lesa Cole and Sarah Gragg of Iola Public Library attended a summer reading “space craft” workshop at the Parsons Public Library on April 17.  Southeast Kansas Library System…

Merryl and John McRae were the high bidders for a weeklong cruise at the April 16 fundraiser for the Friends of  Tri-Valley Foundation. About 200 attendees raised more than $17,000 for Tri-Valley Developmental Services which…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is reporting that it collected $81 million more in taxes in April than anticipated even after officials issued a more optimistic fiscal forecast during the month. The state Department of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing this morning on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Barr’s decision,…

CARACAS, Venezuela ? For Venezuela?s opposition, dawn broke on Tuesday with a jolt of political lightning and an auspicious photo-op. Interim President Juan Guaido, flanked by heavily armed soldiers and the country?s best known political…

Connie (Kilby) Alexander, age 72, of Bassett, died Monday, April 29, 2019, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. She was born on April 12, 1947, in Odessa, Texas to James Kilby Jr. and Betty (Linde)…

Jess Taylor, a seventh-grade student at Iola Middle School, won the Kansas District 3 Veterans of Foreign Wars Patriot’s Pen essay contest, “Why I honor the American Flag,” at Parsons Saturday. Taylor won the local…

LOS ANGELES — New research unveiled recently links a series of California earthquakes to heavy snowmelt during a wet winter. Scientists involved in the work said they believe that water from the runoff flowed down…