Wesley United Methodist Church and the LaHarpe PRIDE Committee will once again distribute boxes of food to anybody who wants one Wednesday morning. The boxes will be handed out at 10:30 a.m.. in the south…

“Prayers for the Believers” was Pastor Steve Traw’s message taken from Ephesians 1:15-23.   Pastor Steve said Paul wrote Ephesians as an open letter to be read to the churches in the area around Ephesus.…

Madison Paige Riebel of Humboldt High School has been recognized by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly as a 2021 Kansas Governor’s Scholar. Students typically are invited by the governor to an awards program in Topeka, but…

Russell Dean “Doc” Thomas, age 85, passed away Sunday, May 2, 2021, at his home in Colony.   Doc was born Dec. 5, 1935, to Clifford and Goldie Marie (Stephens) Thomas in Iola. He attended…

WASHINGTON — Key Republicans continue to signal their support for dumping House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney from her leadership post, with momentum building as Cheney has held former President Donald Trump to account for…

2020 was a grueling year, but at least the number of Americans born into it was lower than it had been in more than four decades. A total of 3,604,201 babies were born last year…

Last October, St. Petersburg, Florida, artist Margaret Bayalis, feeling burned out by the pandemic, was grappling with how to respond to it visually. She came up with the idea to offer free painted portraits of…

A good Samaritan is credited with saving a baby in dramatic fashion after the child fell 30 feet into the water after a multi-vehicle crash on a Maryland bridge above Assawoman Bay. It happened around…

WELLSVILLE — Stop us if you’ve heard this before. Iola High’s softball team followed a familiar route to get to victory Tuesday, with rock-solid pitching, aggressive baserunning and more than a few flashes of spectacular…

WELLSVILLE — Tuesday had a little bit of everything for Iola High’s baseball fans. A stirring late-inning rally. Gutsy pitching. Lots of batters hit by pitches. And two more Mustang wins. Iola rallied for five…