COLONY — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s volleyball team won a thriller over rival Crest Middle School Monday. The Wildcats split the first two sets against Crest, falling 26-24 before rebounding to win the second, 25-23,…

CHERRYVALE — Humboldt High’s junior varsity football team came out on the short end of a back-and-forth affair, falling 24-22 to Cherryvale. The Chargers scored the game-winning touchdown, complete with 2-point conversion with 2:24 left…

Marmaton Valley High School will crown its 2024 Fall Homecoming King and Queen Sept. 27, prior to the Wildcats’ football game against Reno County. The crowning will be at 6 p.m., with the kickoff to…

Another chilling security threat, another collective sigh of relief — and a stroke of good fortune: an alert Secret Service agent who spotted the barrel of a gun in the bushes and fired his own…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kirk Cousins led a flawless last-minute drive for Atlanta and connected with Drake London for a 7-yard touchdown with 34 seconds left to give the Falcons a 22-21 victory over the Philadelphia…

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to push ahead on Tuesday with a controversial stopgap spending bill that could avert a government shutdown looming as soon as Sept. 30. The Republican plan includes an unrelated…

Retired CWO3 Michael Thomas Byers, age 73, of Iola, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park. He was born July 7, 1951, to Bert Thomas Byers…

Venezuela committed a “crime against humanity” with its persecution of dissidents after July’s election, according to a United Nations report.  The government of President Nicolás Maduro used “the harshest and most violent mechanisms” against its…

30 years ago September 1994  Iola High School has begun an open lunch period, meaning that students may leave the campus and eat elsewhere. Those choosing to eat at school have a variety at lunch,…

Near the end of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Lawrence City Commission, a man in a jester’s hat approached the speaker’s podium with a smile on his face.  The room was tense.  “Public comment time?”…