IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and an assistant coach will be suspended for the No. 25 Hawkeyes’ opener against Illinois State on Aug. 31 over a violation while recruiting a player.…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue. The…

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes have killed at least 16 people in the Gaza Strip. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital received the bodies, including the remains of a woman and three children, after strikes overnight…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first visit Thursday to the border area where his forces launched their surprise offensive into Russia, saying that Kyiv’s military had taken control of another…

CHICAGO (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted his party’s nomination for vice president Wednesday night, using his Democratic National Convention address to thank the packed arena for “bringing the joy” to an election transformed…

It’s to the Iola Register’s advantage that Tim Cox, husband of Register employee Liz Cox, likes to garden. During this time of year Cox keeps the staff amply fed as by evidence of the sweet…

HUMBOLDT — Reading intervention teacher Bonnie Welch hopes a bright new reading room will inspire her students, not only while they are in her class, but long after.  “It’s exciting to see what you pour…

Work on an extensive transmission line project is inching closer to Allen County. The line’s route will traverse Coffey, Anderson, Allen, Bourbon, and Crawford counties in Kansas, and Barton and Jasper counties in Missouri. In…

Mortgage rates in the U.S. resumed their downward path, dropping to a new low for the year. The average for a 30-year, fixed loan was 6.46%, down from 6.49% last week, Freddie Mac said in…

Thrive Allen County will continue its series of community conversations Tuesday, Aug. 27, in Gas. The meeting will be at 6 p.m., at the Gas Community Building, 624 W. Pine St. Gas residents are encouraged…