A felony charge of child abuse was reduced Thursday to misdemeanor battery, but the defendant contends she didn’t agree to the deal. Defendant Amy D. Stutzman, 51, formerly of Peabody, now living in ...

Popularity is not always a bad thing. Alumni often go on to use their popularity in school to help others and advance their own lives. The idea of homecoming is a lovely thing and remains such in most ...

Last week, as temperatures around the county plummeted, Marion High School principal Donald Raymer compared the temperature in the Hill School to that of a refrigerator. Raymer visited the building ...

The algae first came to the county in May 2003. Vibrant, foamy “blooms” sprang up all but overnight on the surface of Marion Reservoir. They were blue and bright green, their splotchy shapes ...

A water pipe burst at 9:30 a.m. Sunday in Goessel, causing damage to S. Buller St. and the water to go out for many residents. The public works department, of which director Alex Goossen is the only ...

Agree or disagree, it’s a valid point. Taxpayers footed the bill for the showers not to create a public bathhouse but to support camping. The problem is, the argument came to focus on whether people ...

Services for Stephen “Steve” James Podszus, 76, Lincolnville, who died Thursday at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, are pending. Born in 1947 in McAllen, Texas, to Fred and Viola Podszus, his family ...

The inexperience of Centre is not unique in the county, as public school enrollment in rural Kansas has declined in lockstep with the general population. Goessel’s boys team, for example, graduated ...

Peabody mayor Catherine Weems spoke longingly at a city council meeting Monday night about hiring a city administrator.

Free food will be distributed to residents with low incomes the week of Feb. 16. New rules require that recipients have monthly household income of no more than $2,322 plus $830 for each household ...