Month: August 2019
Its useful to recall that the health-care crisis was big, complex and stubborn even before the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. So the blame games now being played by partisans really dont resonate…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The president of the company that formerly ran a literacy program for Kansas public elementary schools alleged Monday that the state canceled the multimillion-dollar grant in retaliation for the firms opposition…
Kansas Democrats hoping to elect a U.S. senator for the first time in decades will likely need to look for someone other than Barry Grissom, one of the announced candidates. Grissoms campaign suffered a devastating…
Donald Lee Wilmoth, age 85, of Iola, passed away Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Don was born June 19, 1934, in Carlyle, to Avery Mitchell Wilmoth and…
We offer our thanks to the volunteers from out of state who came to Baltimore to clear trash and found themselves helping save two apparent overdose victims. They were here to do a good deed…
MILAN (AP) At least 15 more migrants jumped into the sea Tuesday from the Open Arms rescue ship in desperate bids to reach the shores of Italy after 19 days on the boat in…
COFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating the drowning death of a man who fled from police on an ATV. The KBI said in a news release Monday the man drowned…
Second-year student Conner Clark pulled onto the Allen Community College campus on Saturday, ready to move into the Red Devil Duplexes. He carefully moved in his belongings into his apartment, while avoiding the chaos going…
BURLINGTON A mother and her two young daughters were killed in a pre-dawn house fire in Burlington Friday. Jennifer Rose Pope, 27, and her children, Hope and Faith Garrett, 6 and 5, respectively, were…
The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce is offering up a tour of Allen Countys new Prairie Queen Wind Farm. The 10 a.m. tour departs from the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Tickets sell for $12 apiece.…
