While no team has clinched a postseason spot in the jam-packed AFC, there never have been more teams alive in the playoff hunt this late in a season. Only Chicago, Detroit, Jacksonville, Houston and the…

No. 23 Texas A&M won’t play in the Gator Bowl against No. 20 Wake Forest on Dec. 31 because of COVID-19 issues and season-ending injuries, but the Demon Deacons might still get a game. Two…

Larry Stiles has a new $3,100 motorized wheelchair, thanks to Rep. Denice Apt of Iola, and well-wishers from Iola and all over Kansas. Stiles became partially paralyzed five years ago in a pole vaulting accident…

Few if any athletes have had a run — well, a skate — like Nathan Chen since 2018. Chen finished fifth in the men’s figure skating event at the Pyeongchang Games, following a fiasco of…

Christmas memories come in all shapes and sizes. One often never realizes, until afterward, how special those moments were, regardless if they were shaped from a family tradition, or even better, an unplanned surprise that…

Madeline L. Cooper, 77, of Iola passed away on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, Chanute.  Madeline was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 18, 1944, the daughter of Roy…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Nine days after a tornado demolished his three-story office building in downtown Mayfield, Kentucky, Sonny “Hoot” Gibson was standing in the rubble when he thought he heard a faint meow. It…

LAHARPE — Weekly bingo games at the LaHarpe Willis J. Ross Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will not be held this week or next, because the Friday games would have fallen on Christmas Eve and…

My Christmas wish would be to have Iola officials hop on board the recycling wagon to prevent our Allen County Landfill from filling up with recyclable materials. As a business that handles voluminous amounts of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus.…