EUREKA — Humboldt High’s Courtney Richey continued her season for the ages Friday, allowing only one hit over both games of a doubleheader, while pounding a home run for an estimated 260 feet against Eureka.…

CHANUTE — Pristine weather greeted Iola High track and field athletes Friday as they wrapped up the regular season in fine fashion at the Chanute Invitational. In addition to picking up gold in the boys…

HUMBOLDT — For a guy who won his first USRA Modified feature last year at Humboldt Speedway, Travis Smith has quickly developed into a speed merchant extraordinaire.  Friday’s USRA Modified feature is a perfect illustration.…

Iola High School’s Bryan Mueller and Colby Works placed fourth in the Class 4A Regional doubles tennis tournament over the weekend. The pair accomplished their goal to qualify for state, which starts on Friday. “I’m…

Jack Edward Stiffler, Jr. passed away Feb. 24, 2014, in Iola, at Iola Nursing Center, at the age of 80. He was born Feb. 22, 1934, to Jack E. and Mary E. Stiffler, in Oakwood.…

Cindy Lynn Miller, 52, Chanute, died Thursday, May 8, 2014, at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Cindy was born April 20, 1962, in Iola, the daughter of Jack and Barbara (Culbertson) Scott. She…

  The poignancy is not lost that on the eve of Mother’s Day almost 300 girls are hostages of Nigerian terrorists. Many are to be sold as child brides, the others as prostitutes.  The perpetrators…

When I was 8 or 9 years old, every time we drove past a particular house just outside Humboldt, Mom ordered the car’s windows rolled up. A kid who lived there had polio and she…

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Downes, Council Grove, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Ashleigh Nicole to Steven Louis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dooley, Humboldt.  Ashleigh is a graduate of…

Elizabeth Compton knows a thing or two about raising kids, but “you never get done learning,” she said, with tomorrow being set aside to recognize her and other mothers.Compton is 95, gave birth to 16…