A group tasked with overseeing the county’s health facilities got their first look at a remodel project at Allen County Regional Hospital. The hospital facilities board took a tour of the construction site at the…

The LaHarpe community celebrated this weekend with a one-day festival at the city park. The day included a Color Run 5K run/3K walk, parade, baby contest, talent show, vintage baseball game and more.

Modern constitutional law as we have known it ended Friday. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, it repudiated the very idea that America’s highest court exists to protect…

So far this year, 27 people were killed and 56 injured in school shootings.  Of those killed 24 were students or other children and three were adults, according to Education Week. At this writing, a…

At a panel discussion at the Holocaust museum in New York this week for his forthcoming film, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” Ken Burns said that instead of the planned 2023 debut, he intentionally moved…

TOPEKA — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday striking down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide resonates deeply in Kansas where a proposed constitutional amendment on the August ballot could set the…

CARLYLE — Kenny Arbuckle had a plan for what he would do if a tornado was headed toward his home. He’d roll his wheelchair into the garage, where he had a chain connected to a…

Betty Jean Wells, age 88, died Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at Medicalodges: Senior Living and Care in Iola.  She was born April 25, 1934, in Tacoma, Washington, to Olaf and Bonita (Reid) Overlie. She married…

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Jason R. Anderson, Iola, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, $555, probation Jana E. Coats, Iola, disorderly conduct, $195, probation Ryan E.…

Suspicious activity in the pre-dawn hours in Iola prompted a Code Red call, but officers don’t believe there to be any danger to the community, and the call was later rescinded. Officers were called about…