JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The World Health Organization said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times…

PITTSBURG — Marmaton Valley High School students competed in the math relays at Pittsburg State University on Tuesday. The 16 students competed against more than 700 others from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri in different math…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The unprecedented, experimental program to feed starving manatees in Florida is ending, but the greater issue is the polluted water that causes the marine mammals to run out of their…

Three Iola High School choir and orchestra students received ratings on their solos at the Regional Music Solo Competition on Saturday, April 2, at Pittsburg State University. The students were rated by a judge from…

TOPEKA — A Hutchinson state representative purportedly declared aloud during a bipartisan Kansas House floor recognition of Women’s History Month that women earned less in the workplace because men worked with more intensity at their…

H. Berdean Wall, age 96, passed away Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola.  Berdean was born June 20, 1925, to Roy L. and Nina (Lawson) Jarred in Altoona. She graduated…

On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, Frank Specht passed on to his eternal home. He leaves behind his wife, Mandy; two children, Anita and John; and a sister, Mary Collins. Frank was born on Nov. 7,…

Though small in numbers, Iola High’s wrestling program featured plenty to boast about in the 2021-22 season. Head coach Jason Bates has announced his season-ending award winners for IHS, including outgoing seniors TJ Taylor and…

OSWEGO — Marmaton Valley High’s Granere siblings had a fruitful day on the track and in the field Tuesday at the Oswego Invitational Leading the way was sophomore Janae Granere, who brought home gold medals…

Crest Middle School’s Hanna Schmidt soars through the air en route to winning the seventh-grade girls long jump Monday at the Pleasanton Invitational. Schmidt also won the 100-meter hurdles and the 200-meter dash, while taking…