Month: June 2019
CHICAGO (AP) Free-agent closer Craig Kimbrel has agreed to a contract with the Cubs in a big move to strengthen Chicagos bullpen. The team said Friday he passed his physical. Contract terms were not…
Stan Shultz, an engineer for Veterans Worldwide, rides through Iola in his Ford F-250 surveying the many yards soon to bear a sign with the company?s logo attached to it. Veterans Worldwide has been contracted by…
Miss Chelsea?s Dance Academy will present ?A Tale as Old as Time,? based on ?Beauty and the Beast? at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Tickets at the door sell…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Top Republican legislators on Wednesday blocked nearly $10 million that Kansas corrections officials argue they need to deal with prison overcrowding and said lawmakers might reject Democratic Gov. Laura Kellys choice…
Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday shell dispatch her lieutenant governor to a dozen small cities across the state in hopes of crafting a plan to aid rural areas. Kelly created the Office of Rural Prosperity…
Emeline Emy Ida Platt, age 85, of Iola, died Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola. She was born Oct. 7, 1933, in LaSalle, Minn., to Blake and Dagne Sifford. She married…
Iola police officers arrested a man wanted in connection with a stabbing Saturday in Pittsburg. Officers made the arrest Tuesday afternoon in the Iola shopping plaza parking lot in the 700 block of North State…
Brody Nemecek was named a Kansas 4-H State Project winner at the annual Emerald Circle banquet in Manhattan on May 30. Nemecek, a senior at Iola High School, won in the self-determined category. The award…
WASHINGTON (AP) Straining to stave off threatened U.S. tariffs, Mexican and American officials claimed progress in White House talks, but President Donald Trump said today that a lot of progress must be made to…
CHICAGO (AP) A rising share of older Americans is forgoing the concept of a traditional retirement at the age of 65, a trend that some younger workers arent particularly thrilled to see. A recent…
