Month: October 2018

Allen County Clerk Sherrie Riebel announced today her office will remain open until 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday to allow advance voters extra time to cast their ballots at the Allen County Courthouse for the…

Area families attended Boo Bash Halloween activities Saturday at the National Guard Armory. The event was sponsored by the Iola Kiwanis Club and Iola Police Department.

There’s a reason transactions over the Internet continue to boom: They’re easy. And private. Or at least in theory. Which is why Brian McClendon, a co-founder of Google Earth and Google Maps, has had such…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — As Barry Werber walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue, he passed a cart carrying glassware and whiskey meant for the baby-naming ceremony scheduled at Dor Hadash, one of three small congregations…

Election 2018: This is the fourth of a series of articles on the five candidates for Kansas governor.   TOPEKA, Kan. — He’s brushed aside the state’s woeful financial straits. He’s dismissed concerns that driving…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc lived in an alternate universe where monstrous reptiles stalk people in Florida’s Everglades, a malevolent Jewish billionaire pays American children to stage school shootings and German politicians…

Vivian Maness of Iola went to be with the Lord at Allen County Regional Hospital on Oct. 27, 2018. She was 91. She was surrounded by family at the time of her passing. Illah Vivian…

Francette Veteto, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, Oct. 28. Francette was born to parents Clay and Cecile Lightner in Louisburg, on Aug. 16, 1923.…

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Anti-vaccine billboards claiming that routine childhood shots are deadly have popped up in several West Virginia cities. They warn that the son of former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Nick Catone died…

If economic development is seen as the cure-all for Kansas, then the expansion of Medicaid would be the ticket. If we feel we’ve lost our way in terms of moral compassion, then Medicaid expansion would…