NEW YORK (AP) — Newly vaccinated and armed with $1,400 stimulus checks, Americans went on a spending spree last month, buying new clothes and going out to eat again.  Retail sales surged a seasonally adjusted…

HARTFORD, Conn. — Buddy, the cleaver-fleeing, freedom-loving beefalo that has been wandering the woods of Connecticut for more than eight months, was caught late Tuesday, possibly looking for love. The half-ton bull had wandered onto…

Amber Hodge, right, of The Protein Place, treats Susan Locke of The Iola Register with a sample of their wares. The new store, 110 S. Jefferson, sells drinks, snacks and protein powders. Hodge is making…

The seas are inexorably rising, and the Florida Legislature is tackling this by creating a Resilient Florida Grant Program in the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The bill creating the program, Senate Bill 1954, passed…

An unsustainable spending “arms race” is occurring among the 130 colleges that belong to the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision. It is compromising their integrity and is often at odds with their academic missions. Because of…

Iola’s central role in the creation of a cooperative library system for 14 counties in southeast Kansas was explained to Rotarians last night by Lucile Wagner, Iola librarian. Iola is the distribution center for the…

Dee Ann Paxton Schutte entered heaven’s rest on Friday, April 9, 2021, at her home in Minnetonka, Minn. She was born March 25, 1952, in Iola, to Dee and Janie Paxton. Dee attended elementary school…

TOPEKA — Chris Klimek had already started hearing about the exorbitant natural gas bills other businesses got after this winter’s historic cold snap before he found out what his company would owe.  At first, he…

TOPEKA — Members of a newly formed Kansas COVID-19 vaccine equity panel say misinformation and distrust are among the most pressing factors creating racial and ethnic disparities among those who have been vaccinated. About 35%…

Tempers were running hot during a portion of Tuesday’s county commission meeting. Commissioners wanted to know how, during a structure fire last week at the Harmony Health store in Iola, the following scenario developed: “I…