A Republican, Brown has been assistant Morris County attorney since May. If elected in Marion County, she’ll continue serving in Morris County as well. Incumbent Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey, who ...

A newly hired Peabody police officer is being sued in federal court over alleged use of unnecessary force and violation of civil rights. Robert Walker of Howard filed suit Sept. 9 against Eric Watts, ...

Beaten in this year’s primary election for District 3 commission seat, longtime county commissioner Randy Dallke has filed as a write-in candidate in the November general election. Dallke has been on ...

Hillsboro’s board of education voted Monday to approve the construction of new utility services and hire new varsity coaches. DCS Services submitted four construction bids totaling $2,632,712. The ...

Overland Park lawyer David Graham filed his affidavit of write-in candidacy for Marion County attorney Thursday. Graham has practiced law since 1985. He has worked as a prosecutor in Neosho, Harper, ...

An article on the barbers last week mistakenly mentioned that Ed Grothe had died. He is in fact alive and well. We apologize for the error.

Former Marion County deputy and Burns police chief Joel J. Womochil, 39, has pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child.

It’s not that journalists — real ones, not “talking heads” — have agendas they want the public to follow. They’re humans. They have opinions. But they see their mission not as persuading but informing ...

Just a year after his hiring, county ambulance director Chuck Kenney resigned Monday, citing only personal reasons. Kenney is the fourth ambulance director to quit in recent years. Curt Hasart, under ...

Last week, I delivered a dilapidated couch to the Marion County transfer station. Unknown to me, within that couch was hidden my wife’s high school class ring from 1978. The ring was discovered by the ...

As a descendant of Midwestern relatives from Iowa and a frequent traveler through Kansas back to visit them through the ’50s and ’60s, it has been a delight to read the Record for the last year after ...