Iola News

Education Advocate Training Nearly 800 children in SRS or JJA custody are in need of someone to represent them in special education matters.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 The Iola Register reported in its weekend edition that Woodson County Sheriff David Waddell was arrested in Emporia on Wednesday.

University of Kansas seniors have selected six faculty members as finalists for the 2009 HOPE Award.

"Read a thousand books to find your voice. Tell stories. Carry a journal. Use it "not as a place to go to work, but as a place to have a good time." This was advice from best-selling author Patrick Carman when he talked with TFK Kid Reporter Clara Wicoff during his visit to her school in Iola, Kansas.

In the past few days, more than 1,400 Southeast Kansas residents have signed a petition calling on B&B Theatres to stop its plans to close and demolish the historic 54 Drive-In in Gas, a Kansas landmark since it opened in 1951.

Dorothy May Trites, 82, of Fort Scott, died Friday night, Oct. 23, 2009 at the Guest Home Estates.

Creating PopWreckoning.com in 2007 turned out to be "a happy accident" for the site's Managing Editor Joshua Hammond.

Are you dying for a country fried steak as big as your plate? How about a mouth watering cheeseburger with a huge pile of curly fries? Everything is delicious and well priced for the amount of food you get at Silverado's in Piqua, Kansas.

The Nevada High School cross country team traveled to Iola, Kan., Tuesday and showed a strong performance.

The public is invited to attend an evening of fun, food and music to raise money for a good cause, Tri-Valley Developmental Services officials said Thursday.

The annual 72nd Bronson Alumni Banquet was held. May 23 in the Bronson Community Building.

A Kansas man accused of running an international telephone lottery scam was ordered held without bail yesterday after he allegedly conned an elderly Arlington woman of her life savings.

James E. Eaker of Paola and Rhonda G. Eaker of Ottawa announce the engagement of their daughter, Candice Eaker, to David La Ecuyer, both of Eudora.

Jen Kaspar, of Topeka, talks on her cell phone while she and her father, Jeff Kaspar, looks for a textbook for an English class she'll be taking this fall at Washburn University.

Jen Kaspar, of Topeka, talks on her cell phone while she and her father, Jeff Kaspar, looks for a textbook for an English class she'll be taking this fall at Washburn University.

"For many of the 60 million people living in rural America, inadequate and unaffordable healthcare is an immediate and growing problem," Reuters reports.

The School of Education at the University of Kansas has announced the names of 16 students honored during its May convocation.

The Kansas Department of Transportation will begin repairing and resurfacing two bridges on K-99 in Greenwood County on Thursday.

Don Coldsmith, a family physician who gained fame as the author of the Spanish Bit Saga novels about the Plains Indians, has died.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Robert Blurton, 45, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and arrested at his home in Garnett early Saturday without incident.