In a tense meeting Monday, USD 257 board members retained the district’s face mask policy, meaning the district will strongly encourage — but not mandate — students, teachers and staff wear face masks. From the…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — By Day 3 of being confined to his Australian hotel room for quarantine, David Marriott was getting bored. He’d watched a few seasons of “The Sopranos” and his eyes were…

Allen Community College’s baseball and softball teams were slated to have busy weekends on the diamond. Neither will, however, after both teams were ordered to quarantine because of COVID-19 protocols. The Red Devil baseball team’s…

HUMBOLDT —The Humboldt school board voted Thursday night to modify the district’s COVID-19 policies. The changes do not include modifying the quarantine policy, but instead alters the way that the quarantine list is devised. Those…

Nearly a full year into the pandemic, COVID-19 continues to dominate meetings of the Humboldt school board. On Monday night, two parents, Lane Sterling and Bobbie Haviland, expressed their displeasure with the district’s current policy.…

A rural Humboldt woman who allegedly identified herself as an employee of the Neosho County Health Department and requested school and government officials to act upon her statements, was taken into custody last week by…

The recent holiday break brought USD 257 a chance to regroup in light of the coronavirus pandemic.  Last week marked the beginning of a new semester. Students who had been struggling with online classes were…

We’re a week into the 2020-21 college basketball season, and the 11-time national champion UConn women have been strangely absent from fans’ TV screens. That’s how it’ll stay until at least mid-December. Five days prior…

PHILADELPHIA — You ask a local college basketball coach about whether a specific player will be in his starting lineup. “Minus a positive COVID test, yes,” comes the answer. Never mind getting the Division I…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s football season ended one game sooner than expected when a member of the team tested positive over the weekend for COVID-19. In response, the county’s health director instructed the football team…