County commissioners’ plan to purchase an empty retail store in Peabody to store road and bridge equipment failed Oct. 29. The county was outbid for the former Family Dollar / Dollar Tree store in an ...

Keeping school kids in clothes can be expensive, but it’s nothing compared to outfitting ambulance workers. If you work for the Marion County ambulance service it’s quite expensive, all at the expense ...

Police Chief Matthew Neal and new officer Jessica LaValley handed out stick-on press badges and candy but ran out of candy. The town brought them additional candy.

By ERIC MEYER. Staff writer. Four routine traffic stops by Marion and Hillsboro police over the Halloween weekend resulted in the jailing of fi ...

Nikki Davenport, administrator for the 8th Judicial District, which includes Marion County, has been elected president of the Kansas Association of District Court Clerks and Administrators. The 8th ...

Peabody has flouted budget law since ’16. By MICHAEL MARESH. Staff writer. For at least nine years Peabody has knowingly violated Kansas law to publish an accounting of money, a ...

A 45-year-old delivery driver collapsed on a lawn Friday at 515 Locust St., in Marion and later died at St. Luke hospital. He was taken by ambulance to St. Luke, where he later died. Interim ambulance ...

Warren Kreutziger was 20 when he enlisted in the Army. A Marion native, he spent three years in the service, roughly half in stateside duty and half in Vietnam. He enlisted instead of waiting to be ...

Hess, a contributing author of “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pets, Pets, Pets,” will have her own book signing from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the library. The book was published Oct. 28.

Peabody City Council members completed their mandated hour of training Monday on Kansas Open Meeting Laws. Council members listened intently as Nicole Proux Aiken with the Kansas League of ...

St. Luke Hospital performed 38 lab tests and Hillsboro Community Hospital did 44. Marion County Health Department gave out 26 flu and covid vaccines. “This was a way to support health and to give back ...

Two former Centre students received American Degrees during a national FFA Convention Saturday in Indianapolis. Karsen Kroupa is now majoring in plant and soil sciences at Oklahoma State University, ...