The monthly meeting of the Seekers-Not-Slackers 4-H club was called to order on Jan. 20, by Vice President Logan Walter. Flag salute leaders were Braden Gillespie and Owen Thompson. Roll call was “What is your…

BEIJING (AP) — China today expanded its sweeping efforts to contain a deadly virus, extending the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infection as the death toll rose…

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) — Boaters leaped into the water to escape a fire that consumed at least 35 vessels docked along the Tennessee River early Monday. Authorities said there were fatalities as 7 people were…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of its liberation,  returning to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas Medical Center is testing a male contraceptive gel that men apply to their shoulders. The school’s research institution is conducting a clinical trial for the contraceptive and…

Hi, Carolyn: My 30-year-old son and his wife are separated with plans to divorce. The story I was given in a nutshell is that she had not gotten over her ex-boyfriend and is now back together…

Eight Iola High School students will give a presentation on the school’s internship program at the Kansas Annual CTE Conference at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 4 in Manhattan. The topic is “Intro to the Future: IHS…

A graveside service for Steven R. Cole, age 76, of Gas, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Highland Cemetery in Iola. He died Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, at his home in Gas. He was…

Carlyle Presbyterian Church Pastor Steve Traw discussed “The 1,000 Years” — taken from Revelation 20 — during Sunday’s service. The Scripture says that at the end of 1,000 years of Christ’s reign there will be…

Twenty-four members and one Cloverbud attended Sunday’s Prairie Rose 4-H meeting. President Zoi Yoho led the business meeting. Reports from officers were approved as read. Kendall Scharff, secretary, read the minutes from last month’s meeting.…