Don’t hold your breath waiting for a quick resolution of an ongoing lawsuit between more than 50 school districts and the state. That was the message Friday shared with representatives from 52 districts, all of…

On April 24, 2010, oil from a rupture of the Deepwater Horizon offshore well started to leak in the Gulf of Mexico. It continued unabated for three months. Cleanup continues, said Chris Phelan, assistant Allen…

PIQUA — Piqua’s population is listed at 80. For a few hours Saturday, it more than doubled. About 100 people from throughout eastern Kansas, many of them members of the Kansas Explorers Club, came to…

Calling all men. Monday at 6 p.m. Thrive Allen County will have its “all terrain ego challenge” at Gene and Theresa Weatherbie’s property, also where the annual hay maze is each year.  As part of…

Most people are aware that smoking causes major health risks. What some don’t always realize is once a person is hooked on nicotine it can be one of the most difficult accomplishments to kick the…

Few have kept as keen an eye on agriculture through their lives as Darrell Monfort. His interest has been whetted by growing up on the family farm, two miles northwest of Iola, and tending to…

Samuel Taze “Sam” Morris, 20, Augusta, passed away Sept. 8, 2012. He is survived by his parents, John and Sara, sister, Abigail, all of Augusta; grandmothers Elaine Brown, Iola, Karole Morris, Wichita; and many aunts,…

Kenneth Lee Van Hoozer, 84, husband of Blanche and father of L.D. and Guyla, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Yates Center. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Campbell Funeral Home, Yates…

To the editor: Each time I see the Allen County commissioners want to remove the Iola ambulances from the Iola Fire Department it gets me very upset. I am a widow of a fireman who…

American men and women who dropped out before graduating from high school are losing years of life expectancy, researchers have discovered. They don’t know why. Those with a college degree or more are living longer.…