David H. Moore, 74, Iola, passed away Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 at Allen County Hospital, Iola.Complete obituary and memorial service information will be provided later by Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola. Online condolences for…

Charles W. “Chuck” Wilson, 47, rural Kincaid, passed away Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 at his home.Chuck was born April 16, 1965, in Wichita. He grew up in Pittsburg, where he graduated from high school and…

Mabel D. Meyer, Garnett, was called home by our Lord Dec. 29, 2012. She was a lifelong active Christian serving though the Lutheran faith.Mabel was born Feb. 22, 1920 near Palmer to William and Lucy…

Anita Mary Gray, 85, Bentonville, Ark., passed away Dec. 29, 2012 at Circle of Life in Bentonville. She was born Sept. 7, 1927 in Gas City to Walter Earl Fine and Rena Beryl Smith Fine.She…

On New Year’s night Kansas senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran voted to pull the nation back from the edge of the fiscal cliff and prevent what may have been an economic catastrophe. Roberts and…

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach doesn’t believe that actions have consequences so he had no trouble rejecting the charge that the drastic anti-immigrant laws he helped craft in Arizona and Alabama were part of…

Allen County commissioners Monday afternoon transferred $135,204 from the general fund so the ambulance fund would end the year in the black.Chairman Dick Works blamed part of the shortfall on “us, maybe under-budgeting for ambulance…

It’s not beyond the realm of possibility to consider that had things broken differently, Iola High’s Mustangs could be 5-1 headed into the post-Christmas portion of their 2012-13 schedule.After all, two of their losses came…