The Iola Middle School track team has been busy the past few weeks hosting the Iola Pioneer Quad meet while also competing at the Jayhawk-Linn Junior High Invitational.  Iola’s Kevon Loving broke a 63-year old…

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man on a date who paid $40 to park, only to learn inside a Houston burger joint that he was scammed, allegedly went back and fatally shot the man posing…

MOUND CITY — Marmaton Valley High’s pitching and defense let them down most in a pair of lopsided losses at Jayhawk-Linn on Thursday.  The Wildcats went down early in both games and couldn’t come up…

PITTSBURG — The Iola Special Olympics and unified sports team competed at the annual SEK regional track and field event at Pittsburg State University on Thursday.  In the elementary school competition, Izzy DeTar took second…

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Jahmyr Gibbs was as surprised as anyone when the call came that the Detroit Lions were taking him 12th overall. As a running back in a pass-happy league, Gibbs was resigned to the fact that…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs picked a hometown boy with the last selection in the first round of the hometown NFL draft. The Super Bowl champions bolstered their pass rush Thursday…

TOPEKA —  The Legislature successfully resurrected a transgender bathroom ban that bars transgender and intersex women from restrooms, locker rooms, rape crisis centers and other female-specific spaces, making Kansas the first state to enact such…

Banks, retailers and city hall will hand out hundreds of pastel-colored mini-scrolls printed with poems Friday, courtesy of the Iola Public Library. It’s Poem for Your Pocket Day, a national event in celebration of National…

Students of Betty Cunningham and Kathleen McCollam attended the Mid-America Music Festival at Pittsburg State University on April 22. Cunningham’s students who received I ratings were Maddie McDermeit on violin and Piper Weilert on violin…