Two years ago I sat in a room crowded with 300 angry people and 700 more outside shouting, as I nervously whispered, “I’ve never been in a room where I’ve felt so much white Christian…

On Friday, Kelly Sigg opened a second women’s clothing store, this time in Pittsburg. Several things play in her favor: * A slight, 2.3 percent, but steady growth in population over the past 10 years.…

R. Ruth Baxter, 93, died peacefully Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015, in Omaha, Neb. Ruth was born on a farm outside Yates Center on Feb. 3, 1922, to Lola Edna Jarratt Stoddard and Taylor Harry Stoddard.…

The Register heard from a couple of readers Monday, following an error in the weekend’s Court Report.A defendant was being charged with marijuana possession, not methamphetamine, as I incorrectly reported.The error was a whopper.In the…

Last week’s stock market gyrations had the media all in a tizzy — for all of a day. By Tuesday, markets had more or less rebounded, and now it’s as if it were all a…

Drive by Iola High on a school day, and you’ll find its parking lot jammed with pickup trucks.Today’s is a mobile society and kids are no exceptions.Last Saturday vehicles old and new, and nearly to…

The violence was startling.One minute a cute reporter was doing a fluff piece on TV. The next, screams and shots, and the screen goes blank.That was reporter Alison Parker, 24, being shot point blank. The…

Requests for additional funding by 39 school districts were for the most part denied Monday, regardless of increased student numbers or decreased property values.Instead, they were told to buck up and act more like the…

Piece by piece, Islamic terrorists are destroying the world’s most ancient treasures. Considered the cradle of civilization, the Middle East is being pillaged by Islamic State extremists who regard the preservation of the region’s relics…

Social Security, the federal government’s retirement and disability program, is in the cross hairs of Republican presidential candidates. The wealthy view it as an entitlement program that after 80 years should be drastically revamped, if…