If the stores we frequent are any indication, retailers have a definite idea of how we should celebrate the 2019 holiday season. For Thanksgiving, there’s the perfect dinner table, stocked with enough savory and sweet…

Over the last two weeks, in sworn testimony from experienced public servants with no political axes to grind, the American people have learned that President Trump orchestrated a scheme to extract what he called a…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas universities are reducing general education requirements to ensure more students can graduate on time and create more room for classes in their majors. Wichita State University became the latest…

HUMBOLDT — The second annual Bike Around Humboldt Square will help ring in the holiday season Friday. The fun begins at 5 p.m. with participants invited to ride their bicycles around the Humboldt downtown square.…

Mother Nature may throw a monkey wrench into travel plans for Thanksgiving. A number of active storm systems are forecast from coast to coast on and before Thanksgiving Day. Forecasts call for an 80 percent…

Claude “Lee” Cady, age 67 of Moran, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019 at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. He was born on Jan. 28, 1952 in Fort Scott, the son of Claude…

Suzanne Thomasson Munzesheimer passed away peacefully at her home in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. Suzie was born on July 20, 1940 to Bill and Annabell Truax Thomasson in Iola. Suzie grew up…

Dale Ray Donovan Sr., age 73, of Iola, died Thursday at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. He was born Aug. 13, 1946, to Robert and Thelma (Hubbard) Donovan in Adrian, Mo. He served with…

Herschel Perry, age 86, of Iola, died Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Chapel, 1883 US Hwy 54, with the Rev.…

The Veterans of Foreign Wars presented gift certificates and medals to winners of an essay contest at Iola Middle School this morning. This year’s theme was “What Makes America Great?”