Elizabeth Donnelly will earn a bit of Iola entrepreneurial history when she reports to work next week. Starting Monday, Donnelly, who’s owned The Shirt Shop for the past 22-plus years, is moving her business to…

Michigan State has signed coach Tom Izzo to a new deal valued at $6.2 million per season, giving him about $2 million more each year. The school announced the deal Thursday, saying that the five-year…

At age 22, Brayden Lamb is an experienced bull-rider. In the past month the Claremore, Okla., native has participated in the Allen County Fair rodeo, where he placed third, as well as one in Abilene.…

New windows are going up at the Shannon Building at 20 W. Jackson Ave., which is the future home of the Derryberry Breadery. This section above the awning had been boarded up since at least…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The proposed $24 million settlement between U.S. women soccer players and the sport’s American governing body was given preliminary approval Thursday by a federal judge, who scheduled a Dec. 5 hearing…

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Standing among rows of Iowa cornstalks, Nico Hoerner had Johnny Bench on his left and Billy Williams right next to him. “Pretty incredible,” Hoerner said. For sure. Even for a “Field…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction in Cooperstown last month, the journeys of each of the seven honorees reverberated in their own unique ways. Subtly and organically enough, though,…

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes will start the Kansas City Chiefs’ preseason opener in Chicago on Saturday, bucking a trend across the NFL of coaches sitting their starting quarterbacks for the first of…

Bill Russell’s No. 6 jersey is being retired across the NBA, a first for the league. The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Thursday that the number worn by the 11-time champion, civil…

Nostalgic Kansas Citians will have something to celebrate next year — the return of Worlds of Fun’s legendary roller coaster, the Zambezi Zinger. The amusement park is celebrating its 50th anniversary by bringing back the…