Gordon L. “Woody” Wood, 92, retired electrical engineer, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2023.  Rosary will be at 10 a.m. and funerall mass at 10:30 Wednesday, Jan. 11, at Church of the Magdalen Catholic Church.  He…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of military veterans on Wednesday hand-delivered letters to top Republicans in the U.S. House, calling on them to publicly condemn political violence as the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack…

Construction of a new building for the Iola Senior Citizens Thrift Store is expected to begin within weeks. Crews are already setting up a pad  for the building, with a gravel base installed earlier this…

TOPEKA — A conservative Republican from southeast Kansas plans to resign from the Kansas Senate one day before start of the 2023 legislative session. Sen. Richard Hilderbrand, R-Baxter Springs, who joined the Senate in 2017,…

Iola High School will crown its Winter 2023 Homecoming King and Queen after the Mustang basketball teams host Wellsville Jan. 13. The theme for the Winter Homecoming is “Masquerade.”

Walmart customers in Kansas are advised to check their receipts if they’ve purchased food items from the retail giant since New Year’s Day. In a Facebook post Thursday, the company acknowledged some customers were mistakenly…

Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I’m a widower with a nearly 6-year-old daughter; my wife died when “Emma” was 2. Since I started dating a few years ago, I’ve exclusively dated men. (I’m…

Workers’ compensation is designed to provide protection for workers injured on the job. Kansas workers and their families have less protection than most in America. The great irony is that Kansas was one of the…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s “acute and gentle thought” as he presided over a packed Wednesday general audience in the Vatican, while thousands of people paid tribute to the…

In the fiscal year that ended this September, people from around the world chose us. At some 970,000 naturalizations, it was the third highest year on record for immigrants becoming American citizens. This is a…