IPD to step up enforcement The Iola Police Department will step up patrols in search of impaired drivers beginning Dec. 26 and running through Jan. 3. The effort is part of the “Taking Down DUI” campaign…

TOPEKA — Thousands of people who are arrested or removed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have no criminal conviction or just a minor traffic offense, according to records compiled into a new statewide data tool…

Amy Ruth Helman, age 69, of Iola, died Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, at Advent Health Shawnee Mission, Shawnee Mission. Amy was born Jan. 5, 1951, in Fort Scott, to Robert Smith and Betty (Maxwell) Smith.…

PARKER, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Kansas man in the death of his 70-year-old mother, alleging that he struck her car with his pickup truck and then turned around and intentionally rammed her…

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will take place without broad public attendance, the congressional committee in charge of the planning announced Wednesday. The changes, which are the latest adjustment to Capitol operations during the…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly urged Congress to swiftly adopt a new emergency COVID-19 relief bill for unemployed people and struggling businesses and to approve an extension of the Dec. 30 deadline for state and…

WICHITA, Kansas — Consider the mounting money problems facing public universities in Kansas. Decades of ballooning tuition have made students and their families increasingly worried about college debt. Tech schools offer cheaper faster paths to…

This year just can’t get much worse… At least that’s what Phyllis Lueker thought until someone drove their vehicle through a fence and into her house on Saturday evening. “It’s enough to make you a…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita has recorded 56 homicides so far this year, just one short of the record set in 1993, Police Chief Gordan Ramsay said. The increase this year in homicides and violent…

Howard Reiter gave the Communion Meditation called “The Storm Will Pass,” referencing Exodus 5:1-14. We are told in the Bible that things will get worse before they get better. When Moses went to speak to…