Federal authorities are responding to a 14-mile-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico discovered in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, according to the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office. The spill, which consists of a…

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — A teenager said she could hear the terrifying sounds of other vehicles crashing around — and on top of — the pickup truck where she and her mother were trapped after…

COLONY — Yates Center High got the 2021 season off on the right foot Friday. Crest High still has some work to do. Yates Center prevailed, 50-22, in their eight-man matchup. “They were much improved,…

CHICAGO – Breanna Seibel was riding a four-wheeler alongside her alfalfa field in northern Wisconsin when she started seeing monarch butterflies. The bright orange visitors were swooping, fluttering and dancing in pairs, quartets and trios.…

LAPLACE, La. (AP) — Giant trees knocked sideways. Homes boarded up with plywood. Off-kilter street signs. Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a…

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who sported face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns when he joined the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty Friday to…

Casey Cook celebrated her 35th birthday in May of 2020, during the most intense days of the COVID-19 lockdown. She had been working as a paraprofessional in the Crest school district when classes were canceled…

Iola schools will enforce a mask mandate when 4% of the students and staff at a building test positive for COVID-19.  School board members met in a special meeting Friday afternoon to discuss COVID criteria,…

Elks Lake will come alive with the sounds of the 60s and 70s, up to the music of today, when the annual Lake Fest returns on Saturday, Sept. 11. The all-day music festival will bring…

What’s old is new again. At least in the case of a historic sign that once hung just off the Humboldt square. The neon billboard for the Humboldt Union newspaper, which simply said “UNION,” was…