Given the nature of our third branch of government, the United States Supreme Court, the ruling is no surprise.  Before the court goes after the gay marriage, interracial marriage and a woman’s right to vote,…

After not meeting as a group since January 2020, senior volunteers who serve at Hope Unlimited and the Allen County Food Pantry met in Iola for a recognition lunch on Thursday at Sam and Louie’s. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — During Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, then-California Sen. Kamala Harris asked the judge if he thought women’s privacy rights extended to choosing to have an abortion. Kavanaugh declined to answer.…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Fifty people died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer in the sweltering Texas heat, one of the worst tragedies to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico…

ELMAU, Germany (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest developed economies said Tuesday they would explore far-reaching steps to cap Russia’s income from oil sales that are financing its invasion of Ukraine and struck a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in Donald Trump’s White House, told the House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday that Trump was informed that people rallying on the…

Driver falls asleep, hits parked car Austin D. Morris was southbound in the 2100 block of North Cottonwood Street June 12, when he told Iola police officers he apparently fell asleep. His car veered to…

Robert Howard (Bob) Smith, 68, Iola, died Saturday, June 25, 2022, at Richmond Healthcare & Rehab, Richmond. Bob was born Oct. 31, 1953, in Iola, Kansas, to Ralph E. Smith and Nadine (Fogleman) Smith.  Bob…

Martha “Marty” Wilson Conley, age 72, passed away Thursday, June 23, 2022, at her home in rural Colony.  Marty was born Jan. 13, 1950, in Gas, to George William and Mandana “Dannie” Jane (Gregg) Wilson.…

We wish that we had a clear explanation for law enforcement’s tragically slow response to a gunman threatening and then murdering 19 children and two teachers in their elementary school in Uvalde. That, however, requires…