Month: November 2020
Iola City Council members will discuss year-end budget amendments Monday, a necessary step to close the financial books in 2020. Council members are expected to schedule budget hearings for their Dec. 14 meeting — the…
Arrests reported Blair Thomas, 27, was arrested for suspected criminal threat after Iola police officers completed an investigation in the 800 block of East Garfield Street Thursday. Officers arrested Michael Finch Wednesday in the 1700…
John William Perkins, Parsons, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, at his home. He was 74 years old. He was born Feb. 14, 1946, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Dee and Claire Annice Perkins. John was…
Elaine Carlson Dunlap, age 81, traded her earthly tethers for wings of gold on Nov. 19, 2020, in Bolivar, Missouri, surrounded by friends and family. She accepted Christ as her Savior at a young age…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part of a longshot…
Friday was my granddaughter Olive’s last day to attend school in person until January because of COVID-19. A fourth-grader in Topeka, Olive is a good student. Even so, asking her to continue her studies at…
Day by day, President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of a free and fair election grow more brazen. Day by day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other so-called leaders of the Republican…
WASHINGTON — As the first COVID-19 vaccines move toward federal approval, states are racing to finalize plans for who will get the first doses and how they will be distributed — critical decisions that have…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a…
