HUMBOLDT — Humboldt’s baseball team swept Oswego in a doubleheader Friday improve to 14-0 on the season. Humboldt head coach Mike Miller said.  Grayson wobbled a little bit late but was able to battle out…

OSAWATOMIE — A schedule change turned into a medal for Iola High’s Della Lohman Thursday. The Iola High freshman was included in the Fillies’ track team that headed to Osawatomie’s Francis Wendt Invitational because a…

HUTCHINSON — An old bugaboo — lack of hitting — did in Allen Community College’s baseball Saturday. The Red Devils kept high-powered Hutchinson off the scoreboard for much of their doubleheader, but the Red Devils…

  The Kansas First Upland Pioneers are hosting their fourth annual Youth Shoot Saturday at Doug Strickler’s farm on the west edge of Iola. Free registration begins at 10 a.m. The event is open to…

I am not a nervous person. Yet, I envy the calm of Kansas legislators and their ability to “shake off” the news Kansas tax collections for April are $92 million less than projected. The news…

In my lifetime I may have lost 1,000 pounds, including more than 100 in one session. Since I was a teenager efforts to lose weight have cropped up time and again. I could blame it…

Matrim Alexander Olson was born on April 20, 2014, in Wichita, to Nicholas and Paige Schauf-Olson, Piqua. Matrim weighed 6 pounds and 10 ounces and was 18 inches long. He is the maternal grandson of…

Wayne and Ginger West announce the engagement of their daughter, Ember JoAnn, to Timothy Joseph Ottman. Their wedding is May 10, 2014, at the Chapel of Integrity Hills, Ridgedale, Mo. A reception will follow. A…

Linda Sheppard, director of Health Policy for the Kansas Insurance Department, dispelled an urban legend about the Affordable Care Act when she spoke to Iola Rotarians Thursday. Opponents have railed legislation to enact health insurance…

Technology isn’t lost on the manufacture of methamphetamine. The day of “labs” containing all sorts of glass vessels and apparatus are a thing of the past, said Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy. “Then, purity level…