TOPEKA — A 6-year-old boy in Kansas’ foster care system has spent 48 nights in an office and 40 nights in a hospital in the past three months. “And most likely will be in my…

Junior Bitty Ball American Family Insurance 12, Blue Sonics 5 Hits by American Family Insurance: Vincent Ramirez 3, Aris Franklin 4, Hoyt George 4, Braxten Thompson 2, Jakobi Morrison 3, Hudson Ekis 2 and Nolan…

The Iola Post 15 Indians 17U team split a Monday doubleheader with the Post 48 Muddogs of Garnett to open the summer season. The Indians took the opener, 11-9, but fell, 7-2, in the finale.…

The Iola Hormigas remain winless following Monday’s 18-8 loss to the Garden City Wind in the Hormigas’ home opener. The upstart Hormigas sit at 0-6 after opening the season on the wrong end of a…

Several years ago, a colleague teaching at Miami University, a large state school in Ohio, kindly invited me to give a talk there. After picking me up at the airport, he suggested that we have…

“I’m very much concerned, as I know you are, about what’s being delivered to our children in this country,” said Fred Rogers to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications in May 1969. “We don’t have…

A slew of filings will give voters plenty of choices when they head to the polls in the Nov. 4 general election for a number of city and school board races. Most notably, Iola-USD 257’s…

Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t likely to meet U.S. counterpart Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the near future, the Kremlin said a day after Kyiv and Moscow held another round of inconclusive…

TOPEKA — A surprise outpouring of individual income tax receipts in May drove overall Kansas revenue collections $158 million above the monthly projection. The Kansas Department of Revenue received $657 million during the month, which…

More than 50 area youngsters are learning about Joseph’s journey from prison to the palace as part of the Moran Vacation Bible School, co-hosted by the Moran Christian Church and Moran United Methodist Church. The…