To the editorEvery penny counts in today’s economy, yet many working people are overlooking an important tax credit that could put anywhere between $2 to more than $5,600 into their pockets. The Earned Income Tax…

Rep. Tom Sloan of Lawrence really is into Xiphactinus audax (ZY’-fak-tin-us AH’daks). He has been trying for a decade to get the long-dead critter declared the official fossil of Kansas. But other cooks have started…

While everyone’s mind is on snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures, the Midwest economy continues to thaw.The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region rose for the fourth straight month, to 58.9 in January, according to…

(Emerson Lynn, jr., associate editor of the Register was one of a small group of newspaper editors who spent the week of Jan. 16-23 in Cuba as members of a study mission arranged by the…

Wednesday’s clear skies gave a reprieve to beleaguered farmers struggling to care for cattle in open fields throughout Allen County.Eddyra Nelson, who with her husband Delbert runs about 100 head north of Iola, at Geneva…

Protecting pets is critical in cold winter weather said Cathy Monfort and veterinarian Lee Ann Flowers, both of Red Barn Veterinary Service on 1300 Street north of Iola.“Truly, in this kind of weather, there is…

Rhodenia Rowe usually has a house full of kids.Not so the last two days. Far fewer peeps were heard in her big two-story house at 316 S. Washington Ave., where she runs a day care.That…

Lois “Jeanne” Wilkins, 81, Iola, died Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, at Allen County Hospital.She was born in Lyndon on Dec. 6, 1929, the daughter of Clark and Lillian (Dreyer) Strahl. She graduated from Burlington High…

Donald Eugene Sigg, 76, Iola, died Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka.He was born Oct. 24, 1934, on a farm northwest of Iola, the son of Victor H. and Nellie M.…

Wintry weather prompted school officials at Highland Community College to postpone their basketball games tonight against Allen County Community CollegeThe doubleheader will be played Thursday evening.The women’s game starts  at 5 o’clock, while the men’s…