TAMPA, Fla. — The Ray most deserving of being selected for the American League All-Star team has no chance of playing. Starter Tyler Glasnow was not only a lock to make the team but in…

As a newspaper publisher, I find it difficult to write about the underbelly of local politics. After all, I want Iola to be a shining star. So I struggled in reporting on Monday night’s city…

There wasn’t any doubt that Simone Biles, the international gymnastics phenom, would be wearing our nation’s colors in Tokyo when the Summer Olympics at last returned. Five years and one pandemic-related postponement ago, Biles won…

One of the first farmers to join the Allen County Soil Conservation District was Harold Swanson, Elsmore, who received a Kansas State Bankers award this year for his achievements. The award was won jointly by…

Attention Marvin Smith fans! I have completed and will be submitting the necessary paperwork to nominate Marvin Smith for the Kansas State High School Activities Association’s Hall of Fame as a teacher and coach. The…

TOPEKA — Kansas officials are pleading with residents to get a COVID-19 vaccine and protect themselves from the dangerous Delta variant sweeping through the Midwest. The variant appears to be far more contagious than any…

Kansas remains among a shrinking number of states that store detailed information about health care prices, but that won’t share it with a prominent think tank trying to compare the cost of hospital care nationally.…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas trails most states in how frequently clemency is applied for and granted, but advocates are hoping that will change under Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.  The Topeka Capital-Journal reports  that the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly and her top welfare official moved Tuesday to keep thousands of families from losing extra food aid because Kansas is no longer under a state of emergency for…

James Phillip “Phil” Hess, age 85, of Butler, Mo., died Saturday, June 26, 2021, following a brief illness with pulmonary fibrosis. He was born Aug. 23, 1935, to James George and Mary Genevieve Ellis Hess…