Month: October 2019

Don’t let the 41-0 shutout loss  distract from the true highlight of Friday night’s game between Iola and Prairie View. Five seniors were honored for their four-year efforts to the Mustang football program, each possessing…

CHEROKEE — Humboldt High’s Cubs secured their second straight undefeated regular season Friday in convincing fashion. Humboldt (8-0) rolled up 410 rushing yards in a 50-18 pasting of Southeast-Cherokee to secure a Class 2A, District…

Iola and Humboldt’s middle school football seasons came to a conclusion Monday evening. The Mustangs and Cubs were making up games canceled on Sept. 12 due to poor field conditions.  Here is how the 2019…

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Oklahoma has been a statement game for every team in the Big 12 for decades, and that should be no different for Kansas State, which is trying to rebuild under new…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — All the attention in the American Athletic Conference these days is on Memphis, where new coach Penny Hardaway landed the nation’s best recruiting class, along with Houston and Cincinnati. Kelvin Sampson…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — With a new offensive coordinator and fresh attitude, Kansas spent four quarters going toe-to-toe with Texas last week, taking the highly ranked Longhorns down to the wire on the road. The…

All the momentum is with Denny Hamlin headed to Martinsville Speedway for the opening race of the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs. Hamlin, a five-time winner at the Virginia short track, need not look far…

Just a day after visiting with Allen County commissioners with plans for a new activity center, ACC president John Masterson toured three facilities ? two in state and one in Missouri ? looking for ideas…

I’ve got a name, I’ve got a name; And I carry it with me like my daddy did   In terms of longevity, A.J. Croce’s music career long ago eclipsed that of his father, the…

Raymond Howard Colvin, age 87, of Humboldt, died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, Chanute. He was born Nov. 9, 1931, in Stark, to William and Bessie (James) Colvin.  He married…