Cracking into this, to scramble things up from afar, public sector salaries for those handing out these raises are like using Monopoly money. Taxes and at times less services pay for those raises.

County commissioners heard the first wish list for a county budgeting Monday when representatives of the 8th Judicial District asked for $210,294.62. Chief Judge Ben Sexton told commissioners that ...

Over the past few years, Orsted has been working in Marion County to build wind turbines on local properties. From Day One, they didn’t just show up to do business; they showed up asking how they ...

A 20-year-old from Wichita has been charged with four offenses in two sex-related cases. One is filed as an adult case. The other case is filed as a juvenile case because of his age at the time.

Senior Nicole Cademartori’s cat, which she cradled throughout the ceremony, behaved admirably in contrast, though it didn’t take kindly to a journalist’s attempt to pet it. The cat donned its own ...

These Marion County students were listed this past week as receiving degrees or honors from colleges or universities. Grade-point averages of 4.00 indicate all A’s; 3.00 indicate all B’s. President’s ...

Peabody formally adopted a code of procedure for future city meetings. There was already a list of “council meeting procedures” at the back of agenda packets distributed at council meetings, but the ...

A Marion grandmother who broke up a fight between two dogs in her dining room Sunday ended up at St. Luke Hospital to get stitches. Interim police chief Zach Hudlin said police were summoned to a ...

A high-speed chase Tuesday morning through Marion, McPherson, and Saline counties ended in the suicide of the driver. Anthony Marshall, 47, was a suspect in a robbery Monday of Equity Bank in Topeka, ...