HUMBOLDT – Being more aggressive with the basketball paid off for Yates Center High’s Wildcat girls Friday night. The reward was a 53-37 Tri-Valley League win over arch-rival Humboldt High’s Lady Cubs.The two teams battled…

COLONY- When Lady Lancer Kurston Gilliland made a layup with 2:14 left on the clock against the Marmaton Valley High Wildcats Friday night, she gave Crest High its first lead of the season. That’s all…

COLONY-It was raining three-pointers Friday night in the Crest High gymnasium during a Lancers’ rout of Three Rivers League rival Marmaton Valley High.The Crest boys downed the Wildcats 69-47 with the help of red-hot shooting…

It was a sacrifice for the good of the team. That’s what it was about as junior Chase Roettgen agreed to move up two weight classes to wrestle for Iola High’s Mustangs.Roettgen, who certified in…

Starting senior point guard fouls out with over three minutes left in the game. The home team trails by seven points and the visiting team has gone to a spread offense to take time off…

Home sweet home.Iola High’s Mustangs found the sweet spots on their home basketball court Friday night. It didn’t matter which end of the court they were at Iola owned the non-league game against Girard High’s…

Ada Louise Stever, 92, of Colony died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at Anderson County Hospital, Long Term Care in Garnett, after suffering a stroke on Christmas day. She was born on Feb. 4, 1919, near…

Bernard Theodore “Ted” Gull, 90, of Kincaid died Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, at Midland Hospice House in Topeka. Cremation has taken place.   Graveside services will be held at a later date in Delta, Colo.…

Former Iola resident Louis Charles Bodemann Jr., known as “Bob” Bodemann, died at home in Hot Springs, Ark., on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. He was 84. He was born Feb. 27, 1927, in Oklahoma City,…

Nick Gutierrez, Kincaid, died Dec. 13, 2011 at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka.  He was born June 10, 1951. He was a member of Old-Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers. He loved to play the…