The bell is back.  Iola’s first school bell has been installed at the new Iola Elementary School. A crew from McShane Bell Company in St. Louis, Mo., finished restoring the 1868 bell and installed it…

CHANUTE — Keira Fawson and Rebekah Coltrane stayed the course in singles play Thursday afternoon at the Chanute Invitational. The Iola High School girls tennis team fielded six players. In the singles matches for the…

COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine. Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine…

In one of the briefest meetings in memory, Allen Community College trustees took only a few minutes to approve ACC’s 2022-23 budget Thursday. In one of the briefest meetings in memory, Allen Community College trustees…

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed is determined to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes, which will likely cause pain for Americans…

TOPEKA — The Kansas secretary of state’s office certified Thursday that state Sen. Dennis Pyle secured more than the required 5,000 signatures of registered voters to qualify as an independent candidate for governor on the…

A health clinic at Moran will close next month. The Allen County Regional Hospital and Saint Luke’s Health System announced the clinic’s closing on Thursday, although patients were notified in a letter earlier this month.…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Los Angeles Rams star Aaron Donald repeatedly swung a helmet at Cincinnati Bengals players in a brawl between the two teams Thursday, putting an early end to their joint practice session. Players…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you had the happy fortune to spend time with Len Dawson on occasion, the conversation almost invariably touched on what he considered the serendipity of his own life — quirks…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Interior Department is giving 24 states a total of $560 million to start cleaning high-priority derelict oil and gas wells abandoned on state and private land, the department said Thursday.…