Juan Carlos Mendez-Alvarado died of natural causes while working at the new elementary school construction site, Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said. Mendez-Alvarado’s body was found the afternoon of Jan. 31 in a portable restroom…

Iola police are waiting on a preliminary autopsy report to help them figure out how a construction worker died Monday at the site of a new elementary school. The 33-year-old Haysville resident was found deceased…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The late Bob Dole, a former U.S. Senate majority leader and Republican presidential nominee also celebrated as a World War II hero, will be buried with military honors Wednesday in Arlington…

HUMBOLDT — Harvey Peck, whose murals adorn the walls in governmental buildings, area churches and even a local restaurant, is being remembered after his death Saturday at the age of 95. Peck worked as a…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor said Tuesday that he won’t file criminal charges over the death of a Black 17-year-old who became unresponsive while being restrained facedown for more than 30 minutes following…

A large crowd braved frigid temperatures to pay their respects as a procession of emergency vehicles escorted the late David Ingle through downtown Iola this morning. Ingle, an Iola police officer, died earlier this week…

David Ingle, a member of the Iola Police Department, died Monday of complications related to COVID-19. Ingle’s passing was announced via the IPD Facebook page. “It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. Reid died Tuesday, “peacefully” and surrounded by friends at home in suburban…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and…

SANTA FE, N.M. — Authorities have determined the projectile that fatally wounded cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was a lead bullet, one of roughly 500 rounds of ammunition recovered from the set of the film “Rust,” Santa…