Brandon Hobbs, a 1992 Iola High School graduate who embarked on a lengthy aviation career, first in the Air Force and then as a Department of Defense contractor pilot, was killed Thursday when a plane…

It has been a tough season for U.S. military recruiters. In June, the Navy issued and then rescinded an order requiring its recruiters to work six days a week. The Air Force lifted a long-standing…

The days of postseason bans and crippling scholarship reductions to punish schools for breaking NCAA rules appear to be winding down. Memphis was placed on three years of probation earlier this week with a public…

Bryan and April Sanders started their Sunday morning with a special challenge: to walk 25 miles in support of veterans and despite Bryan’s Parkinson’s disease. They started in Colony, a little after 4 a.m., when…

HUMBOLDT — A trip to an air show for his birthday made quite an impact on Cooper Woods. Woods was in the eighth grade when he saw the spectacle of the gleaming aircraft soaring overhead.…

Air Force Maj. Tyner Apt-Hill, an Iola High graduate who attended the U.S. Air Force Academy, delivers the keynote address during Saturday’s Veterans Day ceremony in downtown Iola. Apt-Hill talked about how her experiences growing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost on Friday became only the second woman to lead one of the Pentagon’s 11 so-called combatant commands, the multi-service organizations that spearhead U.S. military operations around…

Crest High School graduate Annika Hobbs is firing up her jets in preparing to join the U.S. Air Force. She begins basic training on July 21 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. As…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission. The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force…

Funny thing about economists. “They’re really bad at forecasting the future,” says Dr. Michael Marsh, economics instructor at Allen Community College. When Marsh sees economists on TV predicting the next recession is just around the…