Month: March 2018

On Saturday, March 3, Allen Cross Country and Track and Field head coach Vince DeGrado was arrested at the NJCAA Indoor National Championships in Lubbock, Texas for assault against another team’s assistant coach. DeGrado was…

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Bill Self has watched plenty of tape on Penn basketball since Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament Selection Show — a film study that has left him impressed with the 24-8 Quakers,…

The Allen County men’s and women’s track teams wrapped up the indoor season on March 2-3 at the NJCAA Championship meet at the Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas. The Red Devil women finished 19th…

In recent years, the buzzword in politics has been “transparency.” Just about everyone has jumped on the transparency bandwagon. Our legislators certainly have been talking about it. Only a month ago, our new governor signed…

A father and daughter remain in critical condition in a British hospital after being poisoned with nerve gas. Telltale signs of the crime point to Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, out to seek vengeance against…

Work is nearly complete on the pedestrian bridge crossing Elm Creek along South Washington Avenue. Iola Assistant City Administrator Corey Schinstock told City Council members Monday plans are in the works for a ribbon-cutting celebration…

Jon Wells had hoped to make it through his term as Iola mayor without having to cast a single vote. He made it two months. Wells cast the tie-breaking vote Monday in favor of a…

HUMBOLDT — Seventh- and eighth-grade students can hit the mats next year after the USD 258 Board of Education approved a wrestling program for Humboldt Middle School. The goal is to introduce wrestling at a…

HUMBOLDT — One utility extension project is a go for Humboldt and another is moving closer. Humboldt council members gave City Administrator Cole Herder the go-ahead to extend a six-inch line 2,000 feet east of…

Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock the students of Iola High School will join voices with a projected 2,500 other high schools across the country in a coordinated school walkout. The student-led protest is intended, on…