As more and more parents in the U.S. see the connection between football and brain damage, the game we love will change. Many will tell their teenage boys, “You can play any sport you want…

If you’ve ever been short on blood, you know what it is to feel rotten. Too little blood coursing through your body can leave your head pounding and your lungs laboring. Simple physical tasks like…

Henry Emmanuel Ericson of Hiattville, passed away on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at the age of 91. He was born March 1, 1930, in Salina, to Clarence Cornelius and Amelia Gladys Helena (Hanson) Ericson. In…

Wreatha Violet Hoke was born Nov. 29, 1929, in Benedict, to James Porter and Ola Barker Porter. She passed from this life on Aug. 25, 2021. Wreatha spent most of her life in Chanute. As…

Hurricane Ida has passed by, but New Orleans remains mostly powerless. Electricity went out across the city Sunday, and while one neighborhood flickered back early Wednesday, there’s no word about when the rest of the…

FORT SCOTT — Mother Nature delayed action for Iola High’s tennis team Monday. But once the weather cleared, Iola’s Miah Shelby and Kiera Fawson provided a little thunder of their own. Both swept past all…

Jana Taylor is looking for a few good helpers. Taylor, administrative secretary at Iola High School, is helping coordinate efforts to relocate the IHS Mustang season-opening football game to Humboldt Thursday evening. Iola will take…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s Volleyball team treated its home fans to a pair of wins Tuesday. The Lady Cubs, playing in the Humboldt Community Fieldhouse for the first time in 2021, swept past visiting Jayhawk-Linn…

MORAN — Several area schools have hit the court running to start the 2021 volleyball season, Marmaton Valley, Crest and Yates Center among them. After both opened the season Saturday with a daylong tournament, the…

YATES CENTER — A largely inexperienced Marmaton Valley Junior High volleyball team opened the season with matches at Yates Center Monday evening. The Wildcats, who return only four players from 2020, won two of their…