A festive atmosphere filled the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Wednesday with the annual fifth-grade Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) commencement ceremony. Above, K.C. Wolf takes a seat in front of student Briggs Michael as a…

A competency evaluation has been ordered for Brandon Callahan, accused of murdering his mother, Lucretia Callahan, in their Iola home Jan. 17.Magistrate Judge Tod Davis ordered the evaluation Wednesday during Callahan’s court hearing.Jay Witt of…

It takes a certain personality trait to handle some of the toughest criminal cases of them all — cold-case homicides.“You have to be tenacious, you need to be meticulous, you need to dive in and…

YATES CENTER — The old adage is that you can learn more about your team with how they respond to a loss rather than a win.Tuesday night was Yates Center boys’ basketball coach Tanner Davis’s…

Vicky Ibarra and Kristina Silvers arrived in Vince DeGrado’s cross county and track program two years ago as a couple of Kansas kids with very different backgrounds, but now after two seasons with the Red…

LEON — Rayce Hoepker was pretty quiet — by Rayce Hoepker standards — on Tuesday night against Leon-Bluestem. That is, until the fourth quarter, when the Cubs turned to their star to help seal the…

YATES CENTER — The Wildcats girls basketball team had two wins entering Tuesday’s home game against Pleasanton, but with both those victories coming against a win-less Altoona-Midway squad, Yates Center was still looking for a…

Susan Lynn,You know Dave Jackson is right. When POTUS BO was inaugurated you subjected your readers to gushing and shameless fanfare of his every word.  In short, you are a narrow-minded political bigot.  The Rev.…

Sometimes what is obvious and draws public attention doesn’t tell the full story. So it is with the state budget for fiscal 2018, starting July 1.In his budget proposal Gov. Sam Brownback recommended once again…

Geraldine Bain of Iola died Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Eureka. Funeral services will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday at Iola’s First Presbyterian Church.