TOPEKA — The Kansas unemployment rate dipped another 0.1% in February to reach the lowest level in the past decade, at 2.5%. The jobless figures reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the…

CHANUTE — Friday’s season-opener had a little bit of everything on the baseball diamond for Iola High’s Mustangs. Head coach Ryan Latta wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Iola rode the sterling pitching of…

CHANUTE — Everything was going according to script to open the 2022. Iola High’s softball team was nursing a 1-0 lead through 3 ½ innings against rival Chanute Friday. But the tone changed in a…

The folks at Websters may want to reconsider how to define “resilience” by including a caption about the 2022 Allen Community College softball team. The Red Devils followed a similar pattern in both sets of…

D. A. McDonald, well-known Iola businessman, filed this afternoon as a candidate for mayor. ***** Sunday afternoon, the Girl Scouts of Iola will celebrate 50 years of Girl Scouting by presenting “The Golden Promise” —…

Allen Community College’s baseball team had its hands full over the weekend. The young Red Devils squad tangled with Kansas City, Kan., which entered their four-game set at 16-3 overall and riding a seven-game winning…

HUMBLDT — Jake O’Neil returned to the USMTS winner’s circle Saturday as he added the Summit King of America XI checkered flag to his resume. Featuring USMTS Modifieds and Medieval USRA Stock Cars plus the…

Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month and the deliberate targeting of civilians by Russia’s military forces flagrantly violate both the laws of war that regulate a state’s right to engage in war and…

CHICAGO (AP) — Ochai Agbaji was all over the court. David McCormack dominated inside, and Christian Braun connected from deep. With one dazzling finish, Kansas roared into the Final Four. Agbaji, McCormack and Braun led…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — North Carolina crushed all hope of a March Madness miracle in the early going Sunday, getting 20 points and 22 rebounds from Armando Bacot in a wire-to-wire 69-49 runaway over 15th-seeded Saint…