ARMA — Marmaton Valley High rallied, but came up just short Friday in the first game of its doubleheader with Northeast-Arma Friday. The Wildcats had no such trouble in Game 2. Marmaton Valley rallied for…

FORT SCOTT — Stop us if you’ve heard this before. Two days after Allen Community College hosted Fort Scott for a tense, back-and-forth doubleheader, the fun continued Saturday for the final games of their four-game…

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers delivered another outpouring of jobs in March, adding a sizzling 303,000 workers to their payrolls and bolstering hopes that the economy can vanquish inflation without succumbing to a recession in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump, turning aside defense arguments that a decades-old law permitted the former president to retain the sensitive records…

Margaret Jane Robb, age 85, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Thursday, April 4, 2024 at Glen Carr House Memory Care in Derby, Kansas. Margaret was born on Feb. 28, 1939, to Philip Butler and Marjorie…

I’ve always been amazed that total solar eclipses are possible. The sun, an 870,000-mile-wide ball of gas over 90 million miles away from us gets completely blocked by the moon, a 2,100-mile-wide ball of rock…

In the spring of 1974, Jerry Smith was still new to Iola Junior High School. He’d been hired the previous fall as an assistant to Iola High football coach Ray Houser, and as such, his…

INDEPENDENCE — Jeremy Sellman had an early hunch Thursday was going to be a special one for the Iola High golf team. The Mustangs’ three top golfers, seniors Xander Sellman and Christopher Holloway and sophomore…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s softball team continues to make things happen with its aggressive baserunning. The Lady Cubs stole a jaw-dropping 55 bases over the course of two games Thursday, rolling past visiting Fredonia, 17-2…

HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Rescue teams are searching for a family of five feared trapped in a rockslide following Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years, which has left at least 12 dead. Two bodies have…