YATES CENTER — The Yates Center High softball team ran into a red hot Northeast team on Monday and dropped a couple of games, 14-2 and 13-3. Northeast, based in Arma, is coming off a…

YATES CENTER — The Yates Center High baseball team took a couple of sluggish losses in their season opener against Northeast on Monday. The Wildcats (0-2) allowed their pitching to get the best of them…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The first thing that Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman thinks about when he wakes up each morning is how the club, stuck in what seems like an interminable rebuild,…

Author Paul Griffin didn’t just ask Iola High School senior Jake Skahan to share his story. He coaxed it out of him. It started with the usual “getting-to-know-you” chitchat in an auditorium filled with a…

Hi Carolyn: I can’t move past this. I have two teen daughters, and neither one has a good friend group. They don’t do any of the things I associate with “normal” teen stuff, such as…

What would Iola schools do with an activity center that featured artificial turf inside a 4,000 square foot building? Perhaps it could be an indoor playground, or give area sports teams or the high school…

The Chipper Experience is exactly that: An experience. “Chipper is a wonderful magician and hilarious comedian. It’s hard to do one individually, and he does them both well,” Dan Kays, director of the Bowlus Fine…

TOPEKA — Rep. Henry Helgerson appealed to his fellow House members’ sense of duty Tuesday as he asserted no more than “a handful of you” had actually read the 337-page budget proposal they were about…

The Central divisions are often the most forgotten in Major League Baseball, and never was that more true than last year, when powerhouse teams on each coast (plus the Houston Astros, who of course play…

NEODESHA — The Humboldt High softball team wasted little time proving what kind of team they are this season: A powerful one.  The Lady Cubs (2-0) won their season opening games at Neodesha on Monday…