Guns ruin everything.  There’s no nice, nuanced thing to say about the shooting Wednesday at the end of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City.  No “on-one-hand-on-the-other-hand” equivocating about the death and injury and…

The glimmer of hope that Congress might pass a bipartisan border-security bill has been extinguished, at least for now. In killing immigration reforms that their party has long supported — and that are now far…

Her first thought was that a fireworks display had malfunctioned. Iolan Winter Snyder was among the legions of Kansas City Chiefs fans — a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands — who had flocked…

PITTSBURG — A group of Iola students enjoyed a day of cooperation and competition Tuesday, and made history in the process. Iola’s Special Olympics and Unified Sports teams traveled to the campus of Pittsburg State…

Royce Smith’s prowess on the pitch has led to a new contract. The Iola native has signed a two-year contract extension with Jarpens IF, a soccer team based in northern Sweden. Smith, 22, will return…

OVERLAND PARK — Allen Community College’s women had top-ranked and unbeaten Johnson County on the ropes Wednesday. The Red Devils, courtesy of a 21-10 second-quarter run, led Johnson County 31-21 at the break. But Johnson…

TOPEKA — Kansas chief deputy attorney general Daniel Burrows defended a hard-fought attempt to overhaul the state’s civil asset forfeiture law and urged rival factions to avoid the temptation to march to their castles, close…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A historic railway station on the edge of downtown Kansas City became the latest backdrop for a mass shooting as gunfire near the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl…

The regular monthly meeting of the Prairie Rose 4-H Club was held on Sunday, Feb. 11. Prior to the meeting, members met to complete a service project of creating Valentine’s Day cards for the residents…

Pastor Chase Riebel’s message Sunday was from John 4. Jesus went out of His way to go through Samaria so He could talk to a woman at Jacob’s well. The woman became a disciple when…