UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A damning report and hours of body camera footage further laid bare the chaotic response to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, where hundreds of law enforcement officers massed…

During the 2020 election, Rhonda Briggins and her sorority sisters spent days providing voters in metro Atlanta with water and snacks as they waited in long lines at polling places. The lines for early voting…

LANSING, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas prison in Lansing was placed on lockdown on Friday night after a fight among inmates sent one prisoner to the hospital and left at least three corrections employees injured.…

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to…

GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Three people were killed and two were wounded after a man walked into a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall and opened fire before an armed civilian shot and killed him, authorities said.…

In a perfect world, Dorothy Sparks and Donita Garner would be out of work.  Instead, the two see the demands on Hope Unlimited only growing.  Sparks serves as executive director for the agency that tends…

Arlene Virginia (Vance) Potter, 92 of Blanchard, Okla., died July 9, 2022, at her home. She lived in California, Iola and then Oklahoma. She worked in retail and volunteered at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church. Her…

Mark A. Dozier, 59, of Paola, passed away Thursday, July 14, 2022, at Menorah Medical Center, Overland Park. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 21, at Paola Firehouse Gym, 202 E.…

HUMBOLDT — The Iola AA Indians swept their way to a Zone AA Championship title over the weekend after defeating Winfield on Friday and then knocking off Parsons twice on Saturday and Sunday.  The American…

CHANUTE — Doug Kerr found a fitting analogy for the Iola A Indians Saturday. “We took that mentality of a boxing match,” he explained. “We’ve just got to keep punching and punching, and hope that…