Rebuilding the Pac-12 Conference centered around football. It’ll be a pretty good basketball conference, too, after landing one of the perennial hoops powers on the West Coast. Gonzaga will become the latest member of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump criticized the Biden administration’s response to the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, even as his supporters have called for cuts to federal agencies that warn of weather…

Recycling in Iola, or in Allen County for that matter, should not depend solely on volunteers. As proven, it’s not reliable (no offense, you amazing people.) Enthusiasm wanes, schedules get busy, new hands need to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police said six people were killed in a shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening. Police said two suspects opened fire on a boulevard in the Jaffa neighborhood in southern…

SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Rescuers fanned out across the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday in search of anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage to the Southeast, with the…

LAWRENCE — Area runners got to stretch their legs Saturday in one of the pre-eminent cross country meets in the nation. Foremost among them was Crest High’s Josie Walter, who captured 15th in the Girls…

Dear President Carter, I was in my second quarter of college when you returned to Plains, Ga., in January 1981. Ronald Reagan had just been inaugurated, and you came back to your hometown soundly defeated.…

CHANUTE — Iola High sent some of its less-experienced tennis players to Chanute for a junior varsity tournament Monday. “We have some very new players who are becoming better and better by the day,” Mustang…

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter reached his 100th birthday Tuesday, the first time an American president has lived a full century and the latest milestone in a life that took the son of a Depression-era…

Iola Middle School’s Braylon Keithly pulled in a pair of interceptions Monday against the Anderson County Bulldogs. Keithly returned the first interception about 30 yards for a touchdown just before halftime. The second interception stopped…