NEW YORK — As prosecutors predicted, lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday requested a two-month delay to his sex-trafficking trial in New York, alleging a lack of prep time because potential evidence was not…

Mother Nature may dampen, but it will not stop, a series of Easter Weekend hunts in and around Iola Saturday, with one exception. Iola Area Chamber of Commerce Director Kelly Sigg said a 9:30 a.m.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is in “no rush” to reach any trade deals because of the revenues his tariffs are generating, but suggested while meeting with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni that…

A district court judge has thrown out a challenge to the Kansas death penalty on procedural grounds, but said there are economic and psychological concerns about capital punishment in Kansas. Wyandotte County District Judge Bill…

Congratulations to Harvard University for fighting back against the Trump administration’s unseemly efforts to use federal dollars to try to exert unwarranted control over higher education.  The oldest and richest college in America wasn’t the…

The landslide victory of the Kansas City Public Schools’ bond issue has prompted lots of local head-scratching.  How did the campaign pull off such a lopsided victory?  There are a few explanations: a smart campaign,…

A 14-strikeout performance by Iola senior Grady Dougherty and a trio of homeruns by junior catcher Tre Wilson highlighted the Iola Mustangs’ 5-3, 12-8 sweep of the Anderson County Bulldogs.  Only Osawatomie and Wellsville now…

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has been tapped in the new Congress to join a bipartisan “working group” on the 340B Drug Pricing Program — a title that sounds vague enough to mean anything but important…

The Iola Mustangs made quick work of the Anderson County Bulldogs in a pair of run-rule victories Tuesday at Riverside Park.  After halting the opener in the fifth inning, a six-run explosion sealed the finale…

Iola Middle School’s Haidyn Desmarteau was a true golden girl Tuesday, etching her name into the school record books in the process. The Mustang eighth-grader racked up four gold medals, winning the 100- and 200-meter…