YATES CENTER — Competing at home always brings out the best in athletes. Yates Center High’s track athletes were no exceptions at Tuesday’s Yates Center High Invitational.Brae Adams and Sami Hatch went 1-3 in the…

COFFEYVILLE — Isaiah Grover played the Coffeyville Country Club course perfectly Wednesday.The Iola Middle School eighth-grader was more than perfect for nine holes. Grover shot one under par, 35, to win the Roosevelt Middle School…

LAHARPE — Traffic safety and monitoring usage of playground equipment near City Hall took center stage Wednesday at the monthly LaHarpe City Council meeting.Police Chief Jason Prock addressed both issues with council members.He suggested the…

Iola High School’s Junior-Senior Prom will serve as an homage to masquerade balls of yesteryear.Prom-goers to Saturday’s prom — themed “Mystere du Masque” — will be treated to an evening of glitz, glamour and plenty…

Karen Marie Bailey, 22, Le Roy, has been charged with murder following the death of an infant earlier this month.Coffey County Attorney Doug Witteman told the Coffey County Republican that the baby apparently had been…

Steve Strickler approached hospital trustees Tuesday evening in the hopes that being a “good neighbor” will keep his dairy on the good side of hospital management.Strickler said his father, the late Ivan Strickler, raised him…

Mildred Elizabeth Allen, 97, of Bronson died Monday, April 11, 2011, at Moran Manor Nursing Home. She was born Dec. 1, 1913, in Birch Tree, Mo., to John Robert and Emma Alice Morrell Baugh.  On…

Deloris I. Bockover, 74, of Chanute died Sunday, April 10, 2011, at St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo.She was born Aug. 30, 1936, in Elk City, to Lloyd and Grace (Hall) Seller. She…

Virgil Lee “Butch” Green, 59, of Neosho Falls died Sunday, April 10, 2011, at his home.Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Cedarvale Cemetery in Neosho Falls.Memorials to the Virgil Green Memorial Fund…

Gov. Sam Brownback kept true to one of his main missions this week by supporting two more pieces of legislation designed to restrict access by Kansas women to the health care they want and need.Last…