MOUND CITY — Middle-schoolers from Iola, Marmaton Valley and Yates Center were at the Jayhawk-Linn Invitational Thursday. Iola Middle School’s seventh-grade girls and eighth-grade boys both brought home team championships. Yates Center’s seventh-grade girls took…

Lawmakers around the world are proposing legislation that would spare dogs “torture breeding” — reckless practices that intentionally produce deformities such as dangerously flattened faces or abnormally elongated spines. Germany began cracking down on torture…

PITTSBURG — Iola High’s golfers had a tough day on the course Tuesday. One week after a stellar performance at Independence to open the season, conditions this time around proved troublesome, head coach Jeremy Sellman…

Coffeyville Community College’s softball team left Iola Thursday feeling a bit windswept. Host Allen Community College rallied for the winning runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, the decisive rally coming on Madisyn Havenstein’s…

OVERLAND PARK — Some steely nerves from Allen Community College pitcher Jack Bland down the stretch led to one of the Red Devils’ most impressive wins of the season Thursday. Bland was dominant over the…

Kansas City-area communities fighting a proposed landfill are hopeful negotiations with the developers will end the controversy and “eliminate” the project. For more than a year, communities that border south Kansas City have been fighting…

Kalibre Smith, a senior at Iola High School, recently received a 1-rating for his violin solo at a regional competition in Independence. The 1-rating is the highest score a musician can receive in a solo…

SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school. Before the bullying and the suicide attempts. Before she dropped out. Before all that, Dusty…

Lindt & Sprungli, the multinational chocolatier that owns Iola’s Russell Stover Candies factory, was recently awarded $33 million in a federal court trial, according to The Kansas City Star. The Switzerland-based company purchased Kansas City’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on…