TOPEKA, Kan. — A handful of Kansas lawmakers are backing a bill that labels same-sex marriages “parody marriages” and seeks to stop the state from recognizing them. Another bill would create an “elevated marriage” for…

Just nine seconds and two points made three-quarters of disappointing basketball disappear for the Iola boys Wednesday evening when the Mustangs beat Prairie View at home in overtime, 65-60.  The win moves Iola to 9-8…

The Iola junior varsity and C-Team and freshmen teams have had great success so far this week, winning all six of their games versus Osawatomie and Prairie View on Tuesday and Wednesday.  The junior varsity…

Marmaton Valley senior Isaac Heskett signs his national letter of intent to play football at Southwestern College in Winfield with his parents and head coach Gavin Cole, standing. Heskett was a unanimous All-Three Rivers League…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jeff Teague scored 27 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 25 and the Minnesota Timberwolves overcame James Harden’s 42 points to beat the Houston Rockets 121-111 on Wednesday night. Harden had his 31st consecutive…

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 59-year-old man. In the past four months, my erection has become abnormal. My penis, when erect, has a distinct curvature. What do you think could be happening? Am I faced…

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Kansas Department of Transportation officials outlined plans Wednesday for putting a state highway program abandoned by former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback back on track. Years of lean budgets prompted annual…

Dear Carolyn: I hate honorifics for myself and want to be called by my first name, period. Some kids in my life have parents who say they HAVE to call me Ms. Lastname or at…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has missed a month of Supreme Court arguments as she recovers from lung cancer surgery. But she’s not the first justice to be away for a while and…

Have there been proposals for speed islands on Kentucky to slow traffic around the proposed school site? -Steven Henderson, Iola Submitted 02/13/2019