To understand their love of baseball, look no further than their grandfathers. Allie Utley’s grandfather, the late Dick Davis, would watch Kansas City Royals games with his granddaughter when she was still a toddler. He’d…

Yates Center High’s Kinley Morrison and Cayten Cummings joined Crest High’s Delaney Ramsey as 2024 All-Three-Rivers League softball players. The postseason honorees were announced by TRL coaches this week. Morrison, a sophomore at Yates Center,…

WICHITA — Athletes from area schools competed at the Kansas State Track Meet last weekend in Wichita. Here are a few of the other sights from the two-day event at Cessna Stadium.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A chicken-wire fence provides an introduction to a tour through the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, and the facility’s president and guide, Bob Kendrick, uses it both literally and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an “all-time low” in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers. The seven-time…

Roland and Spring Sutterby celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house at the North Community Building Saturday. They were married on June 1, 1974, at the First Christian Church of Iola by the…

Dear Carolyn: My brother announced to the family three weeks before Thanksgiving that he and his wife of 30 years were getting a divorce. We were all stunned, confused, mad. I was mad about the…

TOPEKA — Secretary of State Scott Schwab on Thursday encouraged Kansans to run for office ahead of Monday’s registration deadline. Candidates who are running for seats at the national, state, county, township and precinct level…

Anita Yvonne (Scott) Baker passed away May 29, 2024, at Yates Center Nursing Home in Yates Center. She was born Aug. 23, 1930, in Iola. Anita was preceded in death by her husband Joe Baker;…

Frederick “Rick” Armour Russell, 70, of Olathe passed away surrounded by his loving family on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Rick was born Sept. 21, 1953, in Iola to Herk and Ann Russell. Rick grew up…