MAYETTA — Marmaton Valley High School’s Jacque Gabbert was named the Kansas Association of Career and Technical Education (K-ACTE) teacher of the year on Saturday. Gabbert teaches vocational agriculture classes at Marmaton Valley. The Kansas…

YATES CENTER — A week of basketball action all came down to two teams Friday night with Humboldt High and Cherryvale boys facing off for first place. Both teams came ready to play and struck…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Sunday ordered the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine to leave the country amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion. The department told…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes found Travis Kelce in the corner of the end zone early in overtime, and the Kansas City Chiefs rallied to beat the Buffalo Bills 42-36 on Sunday night…

YATES CENTER —  Iola High School girls basketball team was part of history, just not in the way the Mustangs would have wanted. Iola lost to Marmaton Valley 50-36 as Marmaton Valley coach Becky Carlson…

YATES CENTER — Iola High School boys basketball team took on Anderson County with third place in the mid-season classic on the line. While the Mustangs put up a fight, they came up just a…

Jean Wooten, 94, formerly of Elsmore, and Pismo Beach, Calif., died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022 at Moran Manor. Emma Jean Bergman was born July 24, 1927, in Medoc, Mo., the second of four children to…

Mary Ellen Baker, 86, was born Mary Ellen Towle in Guthrie, Okla., on Aug. 23, 1935, to Edith and Edwin Towle. Mary passed away at her home Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, after a battle with…

Becky Jo Walker, age 66, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, at St. Luke’s Hospice House in Kansas City, Mo.  Becky was born Jan. 2, 1956, to Harold V. and Florine A. (Smith) Lundine in…

TOPEKA — Kansas Republican senators over the course of a three-hour debate Friday countered criticisms of their plan for the state’s congressional district boundaries, passing the controversial “Ad Astra” map. Opponents argued Republican leadership rushed…