Dear editor, The Allen County recycling program is growing!  We at the Rotary Club of Iola see increased participation each collection day, and we’d like to thank the community for its support and focus on…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto…

Ross Perot’s legendary list of lifetime achievements should start with “captured the imagination.” Brilliant in business, generous and demanding, driven, quirky and colorful, Perot was as hard to pigeonhole as a Texas tornado. His death…

On July 11, 1972, the World Chess Championship opened as grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union began play in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Fischer won after 21 games.) ***** In…

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 74 years old and have been a brittle Type 1 diabetic for 50 years. I have no history of heart disease. My doctor of 40 years recently retired and had…

Dear Carolyn: I’m getting married this summer to the man of my dreams and things have been great. We’ve got a new house, I’m graduating college next May and we’re really happy. He wants a…

Only the most naive would believe that power and wealth aren’t the best defense for the guilty. This is what makes the stomach-turning case against mega-rich financier Jeffrey Epstein so much the more galling. We…

As the school year inches closer, recreation baseball and softball are in its final stages at the Iola Recreation Department.  Wednesday night saw the conclusion of the Pee Wee and Little League for boys, along…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — KCTV5 news director Casey Clark went on air Wednesday night and defended the station’s decision not to run the entire 11-minute conversation between Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill and his fiancee Crystal…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. women’s national soccer team celebrated its Women’s World Cup victory on both coasts Wednesday, honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City before jetting to the West Coast…