Allen County Community College’s track and field athletes will be competing today and Saturday at the 2011 Region VI Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Coffeyville.Men’s and women’s combined events began Thursday and finished up…

INDEPENDENCE — Iola High’s Mustangs ended their tennis season at Thursday’s 2011 Kansas Class 4A Regional Tournament hosted by Independence High School.The regional tournament was moved from Friday-Saturday to Thursday-Friday competition be-cause of state forensic…

Fort Scott High’s Tigers helped Iola High’s Mustangs Thursday night. After splitting with then league-leading Columbus High’s Titans Monday, the Mustangs were still in the hunt for the Southeast Kansas League baseball championship.The Mustangs had…

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The “Pulse of Fitness” in Iola is pumping with new blood. Gett Fitt fitness center, 312 W. Garfield St., has been purchased by Iolans Jaime Glaze, a certified massage therapist, and Adam Stockebrand, a former…

Tristan Mittelmeier, at left, and Blake Mittelmeier build a salad with spinach, onions and radishes plus other salad fixings at Wednesday’s end-of-school SAFE BASE gathering for family members and volunteers. Youths attending SAFE BASE helped…

FORT RILEY —  The return of The Big Red One first infantry division from Munich, Germany to Fort Riley has spurred a nine-year building project. Halfway there, more than $1 billion has been spent on…

Chester Allen Booe Sr., 90, of Humboldt died Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at the Kansas City Hospice House, Kansas City, Mo.He was born April 24, 1921 in Humboldt, the youngest of 12 children born to…

Whoops — make that 10.1 billion people on Mother Earth in the year 2100. The population isn’t going to level off at 9 billion after all.That’s the latest estimate from the United Nations population division,…

POMONA — Marmaton Valley High’s golf team tied for third place at Monday’s West Franklin High Invitational.Lyndon won the tournament with a combined score of 355. Bishop Seabury of Lawrence was second at 372. Marmaton…