Iola High’s McKenna Orear was crowned Iola High School’s 2021 Homecoming Queen, and Henrik Sieh the Homecoming King during postgame festivities Friday. Read all about the Fillies’ near miss against Rival Chanute in their 40-33…

WASHINGTON — Despite the furor over U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of violence against members of Congress and conspiracy theories, the likelihood of some sort of punishment by her fellow lawmakers is no sure…

NEW YORK (AP) — Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s top infectious disease expert said Friday he hopes to see children being vaccinated starting in the next few months. It’s a needed step to securing widespread immunity to the coronavirus.…

Johnson & Johnson’s long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot — not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses.…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — There once was a tune that tickled the Internet’s fancy/When TikTok revived the humble sea shanty/The views came fast, the fad could last/Go, read about it go: ___ People are stuck…

Roger Campbell of Iola drove to Bonita, Okla., last week to get his first round of COVID-19 vaccination. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a member of its health plan since he retired…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are balking at the cost of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan — but the Biden team is trying to convince the country that the cost is a…

Merryl McRae is looking forward to returning to her volunteer work with the Allen County Regional Hospital Auxiliary, after nearly a year away because of the coronavirus pandemic. She doesn’t yet know when that may…

(TNS) — In the aftermath of an election that included dozens of changes to voting laws, states have seen a surge in legislation that could further alter the voting process — or unwind some of…