Youth basketball camps offered by Iola High’s Fillies and Mustangs are next week.IHS girls’ head coach Becky Carlson announced the camps for both girls and boys. Cost of the camps is $25 per student.The camps…

Motorists headed north of Iola will be rerouted around a bridge near Welda on U.S. 169 while it is being dismantled.The Kansas Department of Transportation an-nounced that the bridge, which spans the Prairie Spirit Trail,…

A massive search for a Chanute woman who was reported missing overnight  ended at noon today on a good note.Missing was Sheila Lynn Bohrer, 35. She was found by  officers in Neosho County.Sheriff Tom Williams…

Smitten by love, Steven Centlivre Jr. will sell part of his huge collection of tiny replica cars Saturday during Iola’s annual citywide garage sale.“I hope to sell enough to buy this special girl a wedding…

— PAID OBITUARY — John George Luttrell, 81, died peacefully at his home in Darien, Conn., on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, surrounded by his family. Beloved husband of Thelma, devoted father of John, Denise and…

Pearl Green, 95, of Colony died today, June 2, 2010, in Iola.Information about her life and funeral services will be published when provided by Feuerborn Family Funeral Service of Garnett.Condolences for the family may be…

Carol Yocum, 85, of Topeka and formerly of Iola died Saturday, May 29, 2010, at Stormont-Vail Hospital, Topeka. She was born May 31, 1924, in Iola, to Robert and Letha Stateler Yocum. She worked for…

Warren L. Schmidt, 91, of Olathe, Kan., died Saturday, May 29, 2010.He was born Dec. 28, 1918, in Chelsea, Miss., to Louis J. and Marie Hawkins Schmidt. He was a World War II veteran serving…

Low and behold, after 40 years I hear from a private investigator working Cold Case Kansas wanting any information, names, etc., on the matter of Sally Hutton.They said that so far the only information they…

As French workers organize to protest raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 and fight against moves to lower pension payments from 60 percent of earnings at retirement, the prospect looms that the Social…