Allen County voters narrowly rejected a half-cent sales tax to fund EMS services, which would have shifted the burden from property taxes. The question brought 52% of voters opposed, with a count of 2,870 to…

Anthony Maness defeated Sheriff Bryan Murphy with nearly 55% of the votes in Tuesday’s Republican primary, while John Brocker advanced to the general election as the Republican candidate for County Commission District No. 3. With…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The picture of the presidential race has hardly been cloudy for some time, even if it is one that most voters say they don’t want to see. On not-so-Super Tuesday, there were…

A canvass of last week’s election answered the question of who will be Humboldt mayor — Nobby Davis — but also raised the question of whether Mark Peters can serve on both the Iola Council…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has been putting fewer juvenile offenders in its detention center and lessening their time on probation in the three years since it overhauled its juvenile justice system to handle offenders…

While the vote suggested otherwise, Iola Mayor Jon Wells insisted Tuesday his decisive re-election bid was anything but easy. “It looks easy at the end,” he said, “but we fought hard.” Wells counted the number…

HUTCHINSON — Allen County 4-H members completed another successful year at the Kansas State Fair, held Sept. 6-15 in Hutchinson. On top of the following individual events, the Southwind District, which includes Allen County, brought…

BALTIMORE (AP) ? To most of the 11,659 fans in attendance and the rest of the baseball world, it was little more than a meaningless game between two teams long out of contention. For Nick…

Monday?s Results Junior Bitty Ball Emprise Bank 9,  Sonic Equipment Co. 3 Hits for Emprise: Kingston Spears, 2-1b, 1-2b; Ron Ballard, 1-1b. 2-2b; Landon Desmarteau. 2-1b, HR; Deagon Rodriguez, 3-1b; Treyvion Trestor, 2-1b; Mathew Holding,…

Thursday’s results Junior Bitty Ball Emprise Bank 10, Iola Masonic Lodge 9: Hits for Emprise: Kingston Spears, 2 s; Ron Ballard, 2, d; Landon Desmarteau, 2 s; Deagan Rodriguez, 2 s; Trevion Trester, s; Matthew…