Month: June 2019

Blake Ashmore of the Iola AA Indians evades a high-and-tight pitch in a game Thursday against the Garnett American Legion squad at Iola’s Riverside Park. Ashmore doubled one pitch later, and then scored in the…

Thursday’s results Junior Bitty Ball Emprise Bank 10, Iola Masonic Lodge 9: Hits for Emprise: Kingston Spears, 2 s; Ron Ballard, 2, d; Landon Desmarteau, 2 s; Deagan Rodriguez, 2 s; Trevion Trester, s; Matthew…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The assistant football coach at a Kansas community college told officials a 300-pound defensive lineman who died of heatstroke after practice was “making a stressful moan” when he arrived to help,…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — As the first former University of Kansas football player to come out as gay, Brad Thorson knows that talking about sex can be awkward and intimidating. But he also knows the…

WELDA — To a worm, the soil is a world teeming with activity. Intricate root systems deliver oxygen to help the soil breathe. Water flows over the thirsty roots. Tiny organisms create paths through the…

With underage drinking a problem on campuses, the SEC’s vote to allow alcohol sales at football games is a classic example of putting profit before principle. A cardinal rule of parenting is you must walk…

We are now more than halfway through the NASCAR Cup Series regular season, and the leaderboard is beginning to crystallize. We know which drivers are good week in and week out, and we know which…

30 yyears ago June 1989 Allen County Bank and Trust in Iola and Citizens State Bank in Moran will be renamed Emprise Bank this fall and become part of the Emprise corporate group, it was…

Ask Dave Wrestler of Humboldt  about oil production and he’s apt to say it’s much like farming, which he does as well as work in oil. The two pursuits involve risks that are beyond human…

The month of May was an all-timer in Kansas, as sites across the state recorded rain on all but two days. The deluge broke state and local rainfall records as well as setting several high…