No. 1 national seed Wake Forest was expected to make it to the College World Series. Oral Roberts? Not so much. Yet it’s on to Omaha for the Golden Eagles, who certainly look the part…

PARIS (AP) — The query was swift and direct. Novak Djokovic’s reply was slow, thoughtful and revelatory, delivered in paragraphs. “How does it feel,” a reporter wanted to know, “to be the greatest male player…

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. shows up at Sonoma Raceway each year brimming with the confidence only acquired by repeated success on a track. Last summer, team owner Joe Gibbs admits he didn’t…

For Jamie Spears and her siblings, a medical clinic in Yates Center felt more like a playground. They raced wheelchairs up and down the hallways, blew up rubber gloves like balloons and colored pictures with…

With dozens of turkey vultures setting up residence at Iola’s Oak Street water tower through the years, city officials have taken steps to try to deter the feathered trespassers. A pair of coyote decoys were…

The Iola Register won the sweepstakes award in both the news and advertising divisions at last weekend’s Kansas Press Association’s annual convention.  It’s the fifth year in a row the Register has won the sweepstakes…

When opportunity came knocking, Taylor Salzwedel opened the door to a new location for her business, Eccentric Nail Studio. The nail studio has moved a few doors over to 23 E. Madison Ave. It’s a…

TOPEKA — Kansas Treasurer Steven Johnson expects the combination of stable economic conditions and unprecedented state government cash reserves to produce interest earnings of about $300 million on short-term investments before the year’s end. That…

Ukrainian troops are probing Russian defenses as spring gives way to a second summer of fighting, and Kyiv’s forces are facing an enemy that has made mistakes and suffered setbacks in the 15-month-old war. But…

EMPORIA — A pair of Iola students will be a part of the upcoming Emporia State University Theatre production, “Ride the Cyclone.”  Rachel Shaffer will portray Constance Blackwood in the darkly comedic tale of a…