Seventy-six golfers from 20 teams teed off on the 18th annual CASA Father’s Day Golf Tournament at the Allen County Country Club June 16. The four-person team of Scott Cunningham, Becky Carlson, Chris Cleaver and…

Killing two birds with one stone. This was the idea behind Mammoth Sports Construction’s presentation at Monday evening’s joint meeting of the Iola City Council and school board.  Riverside Park poses flooding issues for the…

PITTSBURGH — A full month remains between here and the annual outbreak of NFL training camps, with their daily medical updates about nettlesome knees, cranky quads, unstrung hamstrings and far worse, but it’s not exactly…

Iola school board members agreed to take the next step to improve Riverside Park and pay half the cost of a design plan for flood mitigation, but expressed concern about the total cost of the…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cole Ragans struck out 11 for his first win in a month, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Miami Marlins 4-1 on Monday night for just their fourth win…

WASHINGTON — Exactly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, the battles rage among both advocates and lawmakers over the future of reproductive rights at the state and…

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony…

Lorie Kay Boyd was born on Aug. 3, 1964 in Topeka, to Terry Michael and Vera Marie (Hisey) Smethers. She died on Saturday, June 22, 2024, in an auto accident. Lorie was preceded in death…

Joshua “Josh” Daniel Larney, age 52, died Sunday, June 23, 2024, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. He was born on July 8, 1971, to John Larney and Betty Jo Fosdick. Survivors include children,…

What began as a search for adequate ballfields for the Iola High softball and baseball programs ballooned into a comprehensive flood mitigation plan for Riverside Park Monday night. “You can’t have one without the other,”…