Month: February 2019

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet’s frigid winter. Starting Tuesday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the highs and lows online, along with wind speed…

Iola High School’s forensics team has gotten off to a flying start in 2019. The competitive acting and speaking troupe has brought home first place overall in two of the three meets in which it…

Back in November, Crest and Southern Coffey County’s girls may have played one of the uglier games of high school basketball that you’ll see.  The final score was 21-20 in favor of the Lady Titans…

Dr. Susan Carlson will discuss Mary Shelley’s classic horror tale, “Frankenstein” tonight as part of the ongoing Iola Reads winter campaign. Carlson is a professor of English at Pittsburg State University whose teaching emphasis focuses…

The Allen men got a commanding 96-65 win over Oklahoma Wesleyan’s junior varsity squad on Monday in a game that had been postponed twice.  The win evens the Red Devils’ overall record at 14-14. Allen…

TOPEKA ? The glittery gold print on Cara Simon?s graduation cap begged ? maybe only half-jokingly ? for a break: ?Can I take a nap now?? Toilsome college coursework may have kept the Wichita native…

Allen Community College men’s soccer sophomore defender Austin Cuevas signed with McPherson College on Monday. 

Both Humboldt teams had strong showings for senior night on Monday when the Cubs hosted Neodesha.  The Cub boys won 62-40 while the girls won 56-22. Both teams improve to 10-7 this season.  The boys,…

Feb. 7, 1949 — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dr. Angelo C. Scott, 91, one of the founders of Oklahoma City, died here early yesterday. Dr. Scott spent his childhood in Carlyle and Iola. He was…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Kansas State went on the road to quickly get back on track. Barry Brown scored 21 points and the No. 23 Wildcats beat West Virginia 65-51 on Monday night to remain…