Kansas schools need mental health resources and continued precautions such as masking and testing, according to Wednesday’s Safer Classrooms Workgroup meeting. Marci Nielsen, chief COVID-19 coordination adviser to Gov. Laura Kelly, told the group the…

Congratulations to last week’s player of the week, Marmaton Valley running back Quincy Adams. There were some great performances Friday night. Carter Burton took the top spot this week after going over 300 yards.  Player…

“Miss Becky” Coronado, mom, daughter, nana, sister, aunt, Mickie, and Phil’s wife left the pain of this world on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, at 7:31 a.m. She was married to Phillip Coronado on Aug. 22,…

John Harvey Boeken, Sr., 57, Iola, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, at Freeman West Hospital, Joplin. John was born July 30, 1964, in Iola, to James I. Boeken Sr. and Corrine (McCullough) Boeken.  John was…

Kenneth Matthew “Matt” Taylor, 46, formerly of Iola and Yates Center, passed away Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at his residence in Springfield, Mo. Matt was born Aug. 22, 1975, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was…

Our century-old pink barn sits in an unfortunate trajectory on a treacherous curve on Old U.S. 59 Highway in rural Douglas County, just south of Lawrence. More than once, an over-served driver has topped the…

PITTSBURG — A free concert featuring Mark Hayes, an internationally known composer, conductor and concert pianist, will be at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Bicknell Family Center for the Arts on the campus of Pittsburg…

TOPEKA — Shawnee County resident Katie Whisman’s testimony about failure of the state’s child support collection system to deliver more than $53,000 owed by her daughter’s father inspired a rousing assault by legislators on state…

MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Moscow on Thursday announced plans to shut restaurants, cinemas and non-food stores and introduce other restrictions later this month, as Russia registered the highest daily numbers of new coronavirus infections…

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — In an abrupt change, the White House is floating new plans to pay for parts of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion social services and climate change package, shelving a proposed big…