Month: February 2024

Standout athletes of Red Devil past will be honored Saturday as Allen Community College continues commemorating its centennial by “Celebrating a Century of Champions.” Notable teams who have donned the red and white will be…

Dear editor, For years, I have volunteered for things to make Iola better, but it wasn’t until last year that I responded to the request from Iola Elementary School librarians to read to first-grade students…

Iola Middle School’s eighth-graders gave the home crowd something to cheer for the final time of the 2024 season. The Mustangs wrapped their home schedule Monday, leading from start to finish in a 26-15 win…

(AP) — Facing growing backlash, the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday paused plans to change how it asks people about disabilities in its most comprehensive survey, a move that would have overhauled how disabilities are…

The Republican Party should take yes for an answer. By torpedoing the Senate’s bipartisan immigration deal, under pressure from former president Donald Trump to preserve his election-year advantage on a wedge issue, congressional Republicans would…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Royals owner John Sherman remembers hanging along the fence at spring training in Arizona back in 2020, shortly after he had purchased the club from David Glass, and watching top…

Friends and family of Tai Lee, holding scissors, gathered at Jo’s Men’s Grooming on Friday for a ribbon cutting organized by the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce, marking a year since Lee’s barber shop opened…

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Tylor Perry scored eight of his 26 points in overtime and Kansas State beat No. 4 Kansas 75-70 on Monday night in the 300th matchup of their heated rivalry. “It was…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury convicted a school shooter’s mother of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind trial to determine whether she had any responsibility in the deaths of four students in 2021.…

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Todd Helton and Joe Mauer will become just the sixth pair of players inducted together into the Hall of Fame after spending their big league careers with one organization. “A lot…