Month: April 2022

“You’re actually my most intimidating audience,” Sen. Jerry Moran joked with a group of Iola High School students on Friday morning. Moran stopped by for a tour of the new science and technology building at…

Charles Dwight “Charlie,” “Chuck,” “Chas” Sherwood, 88, of Tulsa, Okla., was born Feb. 8, 1933, in Northcott, to Fred and Lola Gladys (Reiter) Sherwood. He passed away suddenly at home on Jan. 21, 2022, in…

Larry Lillard, 74, of Moran, passed away on Saturday, April 21, 2022. He is preceded in death by his parents and his daughter, Shelley Lillard. He is survived by his wife, Natha; his stepchildren Mashawna…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year, and faces threats from high inflation and rising interest rates, yet economists foresee a return to growth for the rest…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trevor Reed is back in the United States one day after the Marine veteran was swapped for a Russian drug trafficker in a prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow, his mother tweeted…

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Russia is “exerting intense fire” along a 300-mile battlefront in Ukraine’s east, the embattled nation’s military said Thursday, as the head of the United Nations landed in Kyiv for a high-profile visit…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion, a signal that the U.S. is prepared to mount a robust, long-term campaign…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A routine trip to the dentist was anything but normal — after an Illinois man inhaled the dentist’s drill bit and had to go to the hospital to get it removed…

In her important new book about Sandy Hook and the noxious years-long crusade that conspiracy-monger Alex Jones orchestrated against the families of 20 first-graders slaughtered in their classrooms on a December morning, Elizabeth Williamson echoes…

Mark A. Henry, age 68, of Gas, passed away on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at KU Cambridge Towers, Kansas City, Kan.  He was born in Iola on Oct. 28, 1953, to George “Bud” and Ruthie…