Plant roots, and see what grows. The Lehigh Roots Festival began seven years ago as a way to honor blues, folk and bluegrass music as well as enjoy the surroundings of Elks Lake. The event…

TOPEKA — Iola’s AA American Legion baseball team didn’t let an early setback spoil its weekend. After dropping a 2-1 decision to Ottawa’s AAA Legion squad, the Indians rebounded nicely, winning three straight games to…

Dear editor, Shortly after I moved to Iola Kansas in 2011 the City of Iola began discussions with the Allen County commission regarding Emergency Medical Services.  At that point in time Allen County ran a…

Junior Pixie League State Farm Insurance 13, Iola Insurance 2. Hits for State Farm: Charley Kerr, 3 s; Lainey Church, s, 2 d; Rylee Weast, 2 s, d; Autumn Buchanan, 2 s; Scarlett Murry, 3…

As surely as the rains fall and flowers blossom, the Northern Hemisphere awakens every June to another, less inspiring rite of spring — a new peak level for global atmospheric carbon dioxide. This year, that…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Max Stassi and the Angels turned Jackson Kowar’s major league debut into a Royal nightmare. Stassi homered and drove in three runs as Los Angeles defeated Kansas City 8-3 on Monday…

Jonathan Carlyle of Toledo, Ohio, had every intention of getting a COVID-19 shot — someday. The Amazon delivery driver was so busy that he kept putting it off. Then he learned that his state was…

The gap between the death rates of rural and urban U.S. residents tripled over the past two decades as city-dwellers enjoyed robust health improvement and drugs and disease pervaded the countryside. A study in the…

The story goes back a ways, back to the mid-1980s, when Michael Johnson was still in high school. The famous sprinter was years away from winning gold medals at three consecutive Summer Olympics. He wasn’t…

NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant left Giannis Antetokounmpo in his tracks and got to the rim for a reverse layup, with James Harden coming way off his baseline spot to cheer. Harden may be…