LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Allen Community College opened the 2021 volleyball season with a split over the weekend. The Red Devils started off strongly, sweeping past St. Louis Community College in three sets, before falling…

HOUSTON (AP) — Whit Merrifield had three hits and three RBIs, Salvador Perez extended a career high with his 33rd homer and the Kansas City Royals beat the Houston Astros 7-1 on Monday night. The…

ATLANTA (AP) — In a historic matchup between two of baseball’s hottest teams, the New York Yankees kept right on rolling. Giancarlo Stanton homered and drove in three runs to carry the Yankees to their…

The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 are set to announce an alliance. Still unclear is what such an alliance would do, other than differentiate those conferences from the gargantuan SEC and leave the poor Big…

Arrests On Aug. 18, Iola Police arrested Jason Glukowsky and Katrina Beatty of Iola on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia in the 700 block of South Washington Avenue. On Aug. 18, a 2003 Lincoln…

TOPEKA — Kansas health secretary Lee Norman and Gov. Laura Kelly say formal approval of the safe and effective Pfizer vaccine removes a hurdle for defeating the latest surge of COVID-19 in Kansas. The rapid…

Elmer L. McEndree, age 99, passed away Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, at Moran Manor Skilled Nursing Home in Moran. Elmer was born July 1, 1922, in Eskridge, to Chester Elmer David and Hazel (Williams) McEndree.…

Criminal damage to property charges are pending against a suspect who drove onto the football field at Iola’s Riverside Park sometime late Friday or early Saturday. The damage occurred sometime after the Iola High Mustangs…

Torrence Sumerlin, who starred on the baseball diamond for Allen Community College in 2016, was shot and killed Friday morning in an east Chicago neighborhood. Sumerlin, 26, was the victim of an apparent robbery. Family…

In the spring of 1873, young Billy Toll was driving cattle past the Bender Inn in Labette County, on his way to Sunday School, when he noticed the place looked deserted. His suspicions were confirmed…