Pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs revolutionized work at pharmacies in the 1980s, when what were then known as “switchers” served as the middleman to provide real-time insurance verification and customer responsibility.  However, they have evolved…

Iola High School was a place transformed Tuesday evening. For years, its hallways had been nearly empty during spring parent-teacher conferences, as the district struggled to combat low engagement in the high school. As shown…

Malachi Davis, charged in Sunday’s shooting death of John P. Kent of Humboldt, made his first court appearance on a second-degree murder charge in Allen County Tuesday. Davis, 25, of Humboldt, appeared in front of…

Debate over airport hangars — including rental rates, tenant priorities and the role of county oversight — dominated Tuesday’s meeting of Allen County commissioners.  Much of the discussion focused on the status of the airport’s…

Allen County commissioners agreed this week to provide a letter of support for a federal grant application that could help fund major equipment upgrades at Allen County Regional Hospital.  Hospital administrator Pat Patton told commissioners…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House unanimously approved Wednesday a bill forbidding any state agency from serving as receiver of the Texas-based business granted a state bank charter five years ago but since then undermined by…

Howard A. Dillow, age 76, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Howard was born March 6, 1950, in Chicago, Illinois, to Perry and Mildred Dillow. He was…

LEAVENWORTH — CoreCivic will reopen its private prison in Leavenworth to house immigration detainees after city commissioners approved the company’s special use permit on Tuesday, the result of a process one commissioner called “agonizing.” Two…

Allen Community College sophomore Ra’Nayla Moten was celebrated at Wednesday’s College Trustees meeting for her prowess on the track and field stage. The Red Devil sophomore capped off a scintillating weekend at the NJCAA Indoor…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran fired upon commercial ships on Wednesday and targeted Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of bottling up the oil-rich Persian Gulf as global energy concerns mounted and American and Israeli airstrikes pounded the…