PARSONS — Allen Community College’s baseball team had a tough time on the road. Maybe it was because their routine was broken by rainouts Saturday and Sunday. The four-game Jayhawk Eastern Division series with Labette…

CHANUTE — Iola Middle School’s track teams competed at Chanute’s Royster Middle School Invitational track meet Tuesday. No team scores were available. Here are the individual results for the Ponies: Eighth Grade Boys: 100-m dash-6.…

GARNETT — Iola Middle School’s golf team played in the Anderson County Junior High tournament Wednesday at Garnett Country Club. Mason Key earned the 11th-place medal with a 49 for the nine-hole tournament.  Matt Percy…

Clint Heffern has always played multiple sports. At Iola High School, Heffern played football, basketball and baseball. The 5-10 senior weighed his options of where to go for his college education and athletic pursuits. Heffern…

Dear editor, My name is Tonya Shaughnessy, formerly Tonya Farmer, and I am concerned about  an incident involving my father Bill Farmer, 77, that occurred Saturday night. My father has lived and kept a house…

Merle and Patricia Butler of Red Bud, Ill., have a new assignment: As winners of $158 million, after taxes, they must now learn to live like Mitt and Ann Romney. Build a garage with 3,600…

Like scandals? Take your choice, sex or money? The Obama administration wrestles with both right now. U.S. Secret Service agents and, so it is said, some of the nation’s elite Marine guards took 20 or…

The Allen Community College jazz ensemble and madrigal jazz singers will host a swing dance 7-11 p.m. Friday at the Iola Elks Lodge. Donations of $10 per person or $15 per couple are suggested. Proceeds…

Emprise Bank, through its annual United Way fundraising campaign, has raised $143,150 for various charities company-wide. Money raised through the Chanute, Iola, Humboldt and Moran branches was given to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Allen…

Allen County’s landfill will benefit from dirt being removed to accommodate construction of the new county hospital along North Kentucky Street. Bill King, director of Public Works, told commissioners Tuesday morning the contractor restructuring the…