Month: December 2019
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Prosecutors have dropped false reporting charges against two more women who reported being sexually assaulted in Lawrence, as questions swirl around the handling of such investigations in the college town. The…
MORAN Marmaton Valley High School graduates of all ages are invited to Alumni Night Friday. Alumni Night coincides with the final night of Marmaton Valleys preseason basketball tournament. All MV graduates will receive free…
Charles William Charlie Stephens, age 74, died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola. He was born April 18, 1945, to Lloyd and Jewel (Shannon) Stephens in Wynne, Ark. He married Betsy…
The Fearless Fred trolley will take passengers on a 90-minute tour of the Iola area Satuday to check out Christmas light displays provided enough people purchase tickets. Organizers must have at least 18 tickets…
COLONY Darren McGhee gave the Communion Meditation over giving during Sundays Colony Christian Church service. Deuteronomy 6:4-12 tells us to love the Lord with all our heart, soul and strength, McGhee said, to repeat…
Iola City Council members agreed with a group of residents who said Iolas Coon Creek should be renamed. Council members eventually voted 5-0, in one of the more bizarre city meetings in recent memory, to…
The Scripps National Spelling Bee will have fewer participants next year. Whether it will have fewer champions remains to be seen. Six months after the bee ended in an unprecedented eight-way tie because organizers ran…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas congressman who is being investigated by local authorities for listing a UPS Inc. store as his residence in registering to vote has changed his registration to name a Topeka…
BENTLEY, Kan. (AP) Sedgwick County authorities say a 2-year-old boy died when a vehicle backed over him. Sheriff’s deputies went to a home near Bentley Sunday after receiving a report of an accident at…
Starting next fall, IHS freshmen will be required to take a pre-ACT test as soon as they start the school year, USD 257 school board members decided Monday night. The test is a good predictor…
