College basketball had March Madness wiped out and no national champion because of the pandemic in 2020. Last season was mostly played without fans and the NCAA Tournament was in an Indianapolis bubble Well, the…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts returned to Earth on Monday, riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission that began last spring. Their capsule streaked through the late night sky…

ACC’s men’s basketball team split a pair of games over the weekend at the Allen Classic. On Friday, the Red Devils lost 62-57 to Cowley County Community College.  Saturday, the Red Devils got back in…

ACC women’s basketball continued its winning ways Friday night, defeating Kansas Wesleyan’s junior varsity team 65-46. Allen started fast but Kansas Wesleyan was able to stay in the game by getting to the free-throw line…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs probably scrapped whatever defensive game plan they were pondering the moment they learned Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had tested positive for COVID-19 this week.…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State climbed quickly into the Top 25 on the back of three straight wins to start the season, then the Wildcats plummeted just as quickly from the poll after three…

Sam M. Sifers is 90 today. He is at the Sifers candy factory every day when he is in Iola. When he came here the Brownfield and Davis Candy factory was a prosperous Iola industry…

Air Force Maj. Tyner Apt-Hill, an Iola High graduate who attended the U.S. Air Force Academy, delivers the keynote address during Saturday’s Veterans Day ceremony in downtown Iola. Apt-Hill talked about how her experiences growing…

Here’s an experiment for Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, who recently criticized vaccine mandates as strategies that “tend not to work” in Kansas: Cancel the state-issued mandates for school children to be vaccinated against mumps, measles…

God wrapped his arms around our beautiful mother, Annabell V. Brant-Heinlein, and carried her to heaven on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. She left in peace from her home in Edwardsville, surrounded by…