Month: November 2018

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury spoke glowingly of the fan base at Kansas State, where no matter how much the Wildcats are winning or losing, they always seem to make it…

What some are calling the NFL’s Game of the Year already has made huge headlines by being moved out of Mexico City because of poor playing conditions. Chiefs-Rams is back in Los Angeles, in prime…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three years after it closed its beloved toy store on Fifth Avenue, FAO Schwarz is making a return to New York. A new FAO opens Friday in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, about…

Dear Carolyn: Our extended family — siblings and kids — have always gathered at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Last week I got a text from my sister saying she and her family would be going away…

It?s only November and we?ve already had snow. (Some of us have even taken out the Christmas decorations!) This Monday, Allen County was blanketed with it!  Everyone gets excited to see the first snowfall of…

The libraries at Iola’s elementary schools probably don’t sound like the libraries from generations past. You won’t find a stern librarian admonishing children with a hushed “Shhhh!” or students afraid to speak above a whisper.…

Southwind Cycle and Outdoor will introduce a burst of American folk music into downtown Iola on Friday when it hosts singer-songwriter and Shawnee-native David Burchfield. The event kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with opening act,…

Iolans went to the polls on three occasions over a span of 18 months in 2009 and 2010 to come up with the city’s existing eight-member city council. Since that time, the lack of interest…

LAHARPE — LaHarpe City Council members said they’d be willing to meet the needs of a developer if he were to establish a business in LaHarpe. The proposal was brought up Wednesday by Harry Lee…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May was battling today to save both her Brexit deal and her job, as ministers quit her government and a growing list of lawmakers demanded her ouster over…