Prom-goers showed up in their formal best as Marmaton Valley and Crest High Schools hosted their junior-senior proms Saturday. Some utilized unusual forms of transportation (a horse) and attire (as in “Dumb and Dumber”-style tuxedoes.

Iola High School and Iola Middle School students tested their musical abilities, and their endurance, Saturday for a 12-hour Practice-A-Thon. The students came and went through the morning and afternoon, with seven making it all…

Iola Elementary School’s annual carnival, hosted by the IES Parent Teacher Organization, drew throngs of students and family members to the school Saturday. There, they partook in an assortment of games, while feasting on popcorn…

BURLINGTON — The Coffey Health System Board of Trustees has voted to cease obstetrics care at Coffey County Hospital, according to a report from the health system’s marketing department published in the Coffey County Republican.…

LE ROY — Last week’s Le Roy City Council meeting saw the sudden resignation of council member Bryson Meats after the reading of a citizen complaint and a court-issued protection order, according to the Coffey…

The financial picture for American farmers took a hit in 2024. Net farm income dropped to its lowest point in four years, farmland values started to cool, and across much of the Midwest, the number…

WASHINGTON — A group of more than 40 organizations is urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reinstate staff who were purged at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National…

WASHINGTON — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday he has no intention of returning a Maryland man mistakenly deported to his country by the Trump administration and being held…

Pfizer is ending the development of its potential once-daily pill treatment for obesity before venturing into the biggest and most expensive level of clinical testing. The drugmaker said Tuesday that it would stop studying danuglipron…

NEW YORK (AP) — A family from Spain was about to celebrate the ninth birthday of one of their children when their sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed into the Hudson River between…