PLEASANTON — Sterling teamwork paid off Friday for Humboldt High’s girls, who ended play at the Pleasanton Midseason Tournament Friday with a 62-26 romp over Marmaton Valley.“The girls had a fantastic team effort,” Lady Cub…

NEODESHA — Humboldt Middle School’s girls put forth what may have been their best performance of the season Monday, rolling past Neodesha, 36-16.The Lady Cub A team led 12-3 after one period and 19-5 at…

FORT SCOTT — Inconsistency plagued Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade A team Monday while the seventh-grade B team lost a heartbreaker.In the eighth-graders contest, the Ponies could not hang on to a one-point lead after the…

FORT SCOTT — Iola High’s girls C team came up short in a pair of games Monday.The Fillies wrapped up play in Fort Scott’s C team tournament with a 46-39 loss to host Fort Scott…

FORT SCOTT — Iola High’s C team brought its A game to the Fort Scott Freshmen Tournament Monday.The Mustangs came from behind in a pair of games to knock off host Fort Scott and Chanute.The…

Wilda Loree Cramer, 88, Iola, died Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.Wilda was born May 25, 1925, in Mildred, the daughter of William and Eula (Markley) Clay. She graduated…

Making the best of a bad situation takes tact. Kansas’ Chief Justice Lawton Nuss accepted with equanimity rejection by the Kansas Legislature to forego his annual address before the entire body. Instead, he spoke before…

PITTSBURG — Krista Postai is on the front lines of healthcare. It’s sometimes grim and never simple — but regardless, the tide is starting to turn, particularly in Allen County.Postai is the CEO of the…

“If you had told me when I started in law enforcement in Wyandotte County in 1992 that I’d be a sheriff of a Kansas county someday, I’d have said you were crazy,” said Bryan Murphy.A…

Iola Middle Schools’ seventh-graders brought some March madness to late January Saturday. The Ponies, in their second straight nailbiter, downed Fort Scott, 36-35, on a 3-pointer by Blake Ashmore with less than three seconds remaining.…