John Miller, an eighth-grader at Iola Middle School, will be in Abilene Friday to compete in the State Geographic Bee.Miller competed recently along with 50 other IMS students in a written test. He was the…

A music classic is making a come back to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. A community choir will perform George Frideric Handel’s “Easter Messiah” at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Bowlus auditorium.The hour-long concert will…

For all of their virtues, Kiwanis Club members tend to fall short in one area, Dave Hurrelbrink said Tuesday — self promotion.“We don’t really beat our own drum very often,” said Hurrelbrink, Kiwanis’ Kansas district…

Allen County Wrestling Club will have three kids wrestling at the USAWKS 2015 State Folkstyle Championships in Topeka this weekend. Josh Perez, T.J. Taylor and Trenton Jones all qualified for the tournament. This will be…

Kansas’ college basketball scene has been a hot ticket over the past few years. Between the storied Jayhawks, the recent success of the Shockers and the competitiveness of the Wildcats, it would be hard to…

INDEPENDENCE — It was a promising start to Iola High’s boys tennis season on Tuesday. Colby Works, Iola’s no. 1 singles player, went  3-1 overall. Works beat Fort Scott’s Alex Gamble 8-4, Chanute’s Zane Wyrick…

Dorothy D. Robinson, 96, Iola, died today, March 26, 2015, at Windsor Place in Iola.  Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola. To sign the guestbook online or…

Allen County Regional is in pretty elite company when it comes to making its patients happy. The hospital bested both state and national averages in patient satisfaction performance surveys conducted quarterly across 2014. Patients increasingly…

GEARY, Okla. — The Hummer pickup belonging to an Oklahoma man missing since March 6 has been found.A hunter found Ed Foreman’s 2006 Hummer H2 pickup Monday morning, deep in the woods less than a…

The roofs on the Allen County Law Enforcement Center and the Senior/Community Center in Moran have problems.Ron Holman, director of maintenance at the courthouse, told commissioners Tuesday the law center roof had been leaking for…