Football, basketball, volleyball and softball. Mo has seen it all. Mo Elliott is a former Iola High teacher, coach and administrator. He has been involved with Kansas high school and middle school athletics for more…

MANHATTAN — Humboldt High’s Cubs were pushed to the brink Friday, utilizing a key play at the plate to hold off Wichita-Independent 2-1 in the quarterfinals of the Kansas Class 3A state baseball tournament. Relief…

WICHITA — Kendra Taiclet, Iola High senior, is in this morning’s Kansas Class 4A girls’ 100-meter high hurdle final at the 2012 Kansas High School All-Class State Track and Field Championships. Taiclet finished second in…

Gordon Conger withdrew Thursday afternoon from the position No. 2 race for Allen County commissioner, leaving first-term incumbent Rob Francis and Tom Williams, who is completing his second four-year term as sheriff. All three are…

Memorial Day weekend marks  the beginning of summer cooking   for area 4-H’ers. Besides learning to cook in tasty and healthy ways, the students also focus on the proper way to prepare a safe picnic…

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Chance Shrum, who died after he was Tasered by Iola police officers in May 2007, has been dismissed. Allen County District Judge Daniel Creitz dismissed the…

Despite what Brian Pekarek regards as its just-finished “unfriendly” session of the state legislature, the superintendent of schools could find lots of good news to share at Friday morning’s See, Hear Iola at the Community…

Craig Mentzer looked over a field of golden brown wheat Thursday afternoon, its multitude of heads swaying in unison to a brisk breeze, and allowed the upcoming wheat harvest could be “really good.” “It’s going…

Memorial Day was always one of Steven Taylor’s favorite holidays. He appreciates the patriotic fervor in which the nation pays tribute to those who have given their lives in defense of the country. Taylor, wife…

Richard Habiger describes himself as someone who managed to get only seven miles away from home. The truth is that might be where Habiger ended up, but a detour along the way took him places…