Iola and Moran churches offer vacation bible school this week.  The Iola Community VBS takes place from 9 a.m. to noon until Friday at the Wesley United Methodist Church. On Friday, they will have an…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bo Bichette hit one of three Toronto home runs and five Blue Jays pitchers combined on a two-hitter in an 8-0 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night.…

HOUSTON (AP) — Romeo Crennel announced his retirement Monday, ending a 39-year NFL coaching career highlighted by five Super Bowl titles. Crennel spent the past eight seasons with the Houston Texans. He was the team’s…

When Title IX of the Education Amendments was signed into law on June 23, 1972, the text of the legislation said, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in,…

Parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah are drying out due to climate-driven changes in stream flows, and these states will shift to become more like the most arid states of the Southwest, federal researchers found…

Peda Samuel admitted to being a bit bewildered after hearing one of his school records had been broken Saturday. It wasn’t necessarily that he was surprised Iola High’s Brett Willis bettered his mark of 10.82…

Dear editor, The college play, “Shipwrecked,” was one of the best-directed and acted plays I have ever seen.     The 90-minute play utilized entire actors’ bodies to portray the actions on the stage.  Even…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is invoking the Defense Production Act to increase U.S. manufacturing of solar panels while declaring a two-year tariff exemption on panels from Southeast Asia. He’s attempting to jumpstart an…

The biggest vote of confidence in the U.S. economy is business continuing to hire at a strong rate and Americans continuing to return to work. The United States added back 390,000 jobs in May, once…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is preparing to ship out to the states millions of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 in the coming weeks, likely ending months of waiting for parents and caregivers. White…