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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...