I love teaching. But I hate grading. I am not alone in this. Most teachers, instructors and professors — from kindergarten to doctoral classes — embrace the daily work of being an educator: preparing lectures,…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The timing and location of the WNBA All-Star Game couldn’t be much better. Just in the past week, 19-year-old phenom Victor Wembanyama made his NBA debut in the Summer League to…

The legal headaches could only be starting for Pat Fitzgerald and Bob Huggins — and their schools. Fitzgerald was fired this week as Northwestern’s football coach following hazing allegations — but after the school had…

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Caty McNally was one of the few female entrants at Wimbledon with a female coach: Her mother, Lynn Nabors McNally. Mom does not travel full-time on tour with Caty — someone…

Talk about your busy weekends. The Rev. Dyton Owen arrived in Iola on a Thursday evening, started unpacking on Friday and Saturday, and by Sunday morning was greeting members at Iola’s Wesley United Methodist Church,…

Sheriff Bryan Murphy is doing everything he can to encourage careers in local law enforcement. He’s offering walk-in interviews next week at the jail. He’s lowered the age to work in the jail from 21…

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows: Gavin L. Cranor, Iola, failure to carry/exhibit license, $195 Travis W. Leftwich, Colony, theft of services, $342.78, probation ordered Christopher M. Newton, Iola, driving without proper…

As more than $50 billion makes its way to state and local governments to compensate for the opioid epidemic, people with high hopes for the money are already fighting over a little-known bureaucratic arm of…

MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY (AP) — A man arrested in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings on Long Island known as the Gilgo Beach murders has been identified as Rex Heuermann, an architect living across…

TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education voted unanimously to recommend Gov. Laura Kelly and the 2024 Legislature embrace a four-year initiative raising state aid to special education by $86.6 million annually to bring…