WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring that U.S. leadership “holds the world together,” President Joe Biden told Americans on Thursday night the country must deepen its support of Ukraine and Israel in the middle of two vastly different, unpredictable and bloody…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third…

James (Jim) Clarence Buckle was born Oct. 28, 1936, in Iola, to Thomas and Fannie Alice (Blandford) Buckle, and departed this life July 31, 2023, in Topeka. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m.…

Heather Luedke, a second-grade teacher at Iola Elementary School, was injured Thursday morning after being struck by a van in the school parking lot. Iola police officers said Luedke was crossing a driving path en…

Elizabeth, left, and Taylor Chriestenson were among the youngsters taking part in a Pokemon-themed SAFE BASE blue plate special at Iola Elementary School Thursday. The siblings were launching ‘Pokeballs’ they designed. At left, Taylor finishes…

HUMBOLDT — The annual Humboldt Halloween Spook Parade, sponsored by G.A.L.S.-F.C.E. and the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce, will be at 5:30 p.m. on Halloween Day. Children in Halloween costumes from preschool to grade 5 are…

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the United States last month has been detained by the U.S. military, two officials said Thursday night, and is…

Basic party philosophies surfaced in exchanges between Republican Denise Apt of Iola and Democrat Doug Walker of Osawatomie at a candidate forum here Wednesday night. The two are competing for the state senate seat being…

Missouri achieved a dubious new status recently: It broke the top three in the list of U.S. states that have most egregiously moved to ban books from school libraries. That’s according to a recent report…

The other day someone sent me the searchable database published by Atlantic magazine of more than 191,000 e-books that have been used to train the generative AI systems being developed by Meta, Bloomberg and others.…