A handsome sign painted in the school’s colors of black and red was erected on the Iola Junior College campus. The 4 by 6-foot sign reads: “An accredited two year college, Iola Junior College, home…

The Iola High School girls and boys basketball teams got one last chance to shake the rust off on Tuesday when IHS hosted the Gatorade scrimmage.  The girls played two games against each other, switching…

Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority today will weigh the fate of a famous liberal precedent: the Roe vs. Wade decision and the right of pregnant women to choose abortion. Lawyers for Mississippi…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State’s resiliency was too much for top-ranked Duke to handle. Zed Key scored a career-high 20 points and Ohio State held No. 1 Duke scoreless for the final 4 1/2…

As with just about any business, customers decide the Register’s future. I try not to think about that too hard, else I would never type a sentence. I tell my staff to write for our…

PHOENIX (AP) — Mikal Bridges and Deandre Ayton were all smiles at the postgame podium, reminiscing about a four-year turnaround for the Phoenix Suns that’s in some ways still hard to believe. The Suns won…

We have repeatedly criticized Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Attorney General Eric Schmitt for working so long and hard to keep an innocent man in prison. So now that Kevin Strickland is free, after serving…

MORAN — Points were hard to come by for Marmaton Valley Junior High’s girls Tuesday. The Wildcat A team dropped a 31-9 decision to visiting Northeast-Arma. The B team game was a bit more competitive,…

Marita Lynne Bigelow, 79, Fort Scott, passed away Tuesday morning Nov. 30, 2021, at her home. She was born July 20, 1942, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Preston “Pete” Lafayette and Dorothy Lavella (Pottorff)…