Timothy “Tim” Earl Weldin, age 60, of Colony, passed away on Wednesday, August 26, 2020, at Allen County Hospital, Iola. He was born August 31, 1959, in Iola, the son of Floyd and Katherine (Gilliland)…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as he accepted his party’s renomination on the South Lawn of the White House. While the…

TOPEKA — Fifth-generation Kansan Donn Teske’s commitment to family farm survival and humility inspired by German Lutheran lineage argued against taking part in a documentary capturing adversity of three seemingly divergent middle-class Americans compelled to…

Dear Dr. Roach: I have had meralgia paresthetica for two and a half years. I have all the classic symptoms: tingling, pins and needles, some numbness and stinging in the top and side of my…

Dear Carolyn: When I started dating “Tim,” my friends were very excited. I don’t usually date, especially long-term. Tim is a great guy, really nice, very funny and endlessly sweet. Almost too sweet. He constantly…

Howard Reiter gave the Communion Meditation on Matthew 6:5-15. Prayer places us in the presence of God, and the Lord’s Prayer teaches us how best to pray.  Pastor Chase Riebel gave the sermon, “Do the…

Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday, “Amid the Darkness,” was taken from Hebrews 13:5-8. God will be with us until the end; therefore, He knows our needs and we are to be content with what we…

The administration of Gov. Laura Kelly plans to seek federal approval for Kansas’ participation in a new unemployment benefit program created by an executive memorandum issued by President Donald Trump, state officials said Thursday. On…

Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Gene Franks, 33, Iola, for suspicion of criminal damage to property shortly after midnight Thursday morning in the 800 block of East Madison Avenue. David Petty, 20, was arrested…

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A fire at a Louisiana chlorine plant erupted with thick, billowing smoke Thursday after Hurricane Laura plowed through part of the country’s petrochemical corridor with storm surges and fierce wind,…