Lola M. Richwine, longtime resident of Stark and the rural Savonburg area, died  early Thursday morning, March 8, 2012, at Prairie Mission Retirement Village in St. Paul. She had lived there the past five years.…

Rose Ann Phipps, 67, of LaHarpe died Thursday, March 8, 2012, at Olathe Medical Center. Rose Ann was born July 21, 1944, in Leon, Iowa, the daughter of Ernest and Mary (Purdue) Owens. She grew…

Karen Elaine Whitcomb, 47, of Garnett died Thursday, March 8, 2012, at her home.  She was the granddaughter of Minnie Louise Schomaker of Iola. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Feuerborn…

Anna Mae Hirt, 75, of Westphalia died Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday  at the Church of the Nazarene in Garnett. Burial will be the Bethel Cemetery in Westphalia. …

Kenneth Culbertson, 90, of rural Iola died Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at Chanute Health Care. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at DeWitt Cemetery. Memorials to  Salem United Methodist Church and may be…

Carol M. Stephens, 69, formerly of El Dorado, Ark., died Sunday, March 4, 2012, in Fountain Valley, Calif.   Carol was preceded in death by her husband, Tommie, originally from Neosho Falls.   She is…

Oklahoma Republicans voted for Rick Santorum. Tennessee, the home of moderate Republican Howard Baker and his even-more-moderate wife, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, also put itself solidly in the Santorum camp. More significantly, the former senator who…

LIBERAL — Down by 20 points at halftime, Allen Community College’s Red Devils got caught in a shower of threes in the second half of their opening-round game of the NJCAA Region VI, Division I playoffs.…

HAYS — Most coaches talk of taking the basketball inside to set up outside scoring opportunities.  Crest High’s Lancers ran into a team that took the opposite approach in the opening round of the Kansas…

Emergency units respond to a single vehicle accident just north of Humboldt on the Old 169 Highway. As temperatures hovered around freezing, rain this morning turned into snow, causing anything but ideal road conditions throughout…