Month: April 2018

High School Golf: Yates Center Wildcats Yates Center picked up second-place team medals at the Pleasanton High School Invitational at Deer Trace golf course. The Wildcats were only seven strokes from first place Jayhawk-Linn. Reece…

Lincoln Elementary School students wrote books and were selected to attend the final Allen County Young Authors conference April 28 in Iola. Front row, from left, Ruger Boren, Lynsie Fehr, Ethan Flyingman, Raidyn Keeler, Eli…

Ashley Dixon didn’t see a lot of community activism as she grew up in Parsons. But while she attended colleges in New York and Nashville, Dixon involved herself in numerous causes: Diversity training, workers’ rights,…

TOPEKA, Kan. — A federal judge on Wednesday found Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court in a case involving Kansas voting laws, her latest rebuke of the Republican candidate for governor. Kobach…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a TESS spacecraft lifts off Wednesday at Cape Canaveral in Florida. TESS, which stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is a telescope/camera that will hunt for undiscovered worlds around…

Three men were found guilty Wednesday of conspiring to blow up an apartment complex in western Kansas that housed Somali immigrants. Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen were convicted of conspiracy to use a…

Katie Bauer, a senior at Iola High School, took “Best of Show” honors for her drawing, “Casual Elegance,” at the 31st annual High School Art Competition Friday, April 13, at Labette Community College. Bauer used…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High School will be fighting it out April 28. Forensics team members are hosting “Family Feud Game Night” in the school’s commons area. Teams of five can register to play for…

HAVANA (AP) — A 57-year-old bureaucrat will take Raul Castro’s place as the president of Cuba today as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure the longterm survival of…

Nine members attended the South Logan FCE meeting Tuesday at the Humboldt Public Library. Lorene Ellison presented the program, “What is FCE?” FCE stands for Family and Community Education and is part of the Extension…