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The girlfriend of Iolan Trevor Hockaday, a former McDonald’s employee accused of spiking an Allen County sheriff’s deputy’s drink with industrial cleaner, said her boyfriend was innocent. “There’s still a lot of people mad about…

Generations of students have gone through high school with a well-established notion of how their educational paths would lead. Learn the essentials — reading, writing, arithmetic — prepare for college, and if they’ve kept up…

When in fourth grade, Michael Cuestas reached the pinnacle of success for elementary school: He won the school spelling bee. Cuestas weathered the contest, despite the doubts instilled by those, including his friends, who told…

High School Football: Bulldogs 42, Mustangs 6 GARNETT — Frustration gave way to an apathetic effort on the part of the Iola Mustang football team Friday night in their 42-6 road bell-ringing at the hands…

It’s Wednesday, 8 a.m., breakfast time in the Toddler Room at Iola’s Head Start preschool. Three adults and two towheaded toddlers sit in small chairs around a small table. The adults’ knees are all visible…

High School Football: Cubs 73, Jayhawks 0 MOUND CITY — A few minutes after Humboldt High devastated Jayhawk-Linn 73-0 here Friday night, Dagen Goodner, Tucker Hurst and Conor Haviland were walking off the field. “I’m…

It’s Wednesday, 8 a.m., breakfast time in the Toddler Room at Iola’s Head Start preschool. Three adults and two towheaded toddlers sit in small chairs around a small table. The adults’ knees are all visible…

Like any move, shifting art, choir and drama classes from the Bowlus Fine Arts Center to Iola High School came with challenges. Some were logistical: Where do you find space for the new classrooms? Others…

Joshua Knapp will spend the rest of his life in prison for the March 2016 murder of Iolan Shawn Cook. Allen County District Judge Daniel Creitz sentenced Knapp Tuesday to the “hard 50” life sentence,…

Iola High School’s annual Doc Stiles Invitational cross country meet was cut short on Tuesday due to excessive heat. After running the junior varsity races, head coach Marv Smith made the call to cancel the…