The quake was centered two miles west of US-77 and 1½ miles north of K-4 at a depth of almost six miles and was more than 10 times more powerful than a pair of quakes that struck May 1 in Marion ...

Retired Emporia city manager Mark McAnarney has been filling in as interim administrator since then. Wells, who is expected to start in mid-June, will move to Marion from Collier County, Florida, ...

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, ...

Marion High School student Shaliah Ensley has been reappointed to Kansas State High School Activities Association’s student advisory team. The team, made up of juniors and seniors, provides a student ...

Services for Avis Yvonne Bergman, 83, Hillsboro, who died May 10 at the Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Grace Community Fellowship, Hillsboro. Pastor Dave Reimer will ...

Born June 19, 1950, in Marion to Don and Jacquie Larsen, he spent his early years in rural Peabody then moved to Livermore, California, where he graduated from high school and enlisted in the Air ...

Background checks are required under Kansas law. KSA 74-5605 states that all officers must be “of good moral character” and that no officer who has committed “a misdemeanor offense that… reflects on ...

Funeral Mass for retired Marion banker Matthew H. Classen, 92, who passed away May 10, 2025, at Cox Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, will be 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 17, at Holy Trinity Catholic ...

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 ...

Valedictory, Graduating students reflect on education and path to adulthood, from Marion County Record for May 15, 2025 ...

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 ...

Virtually every news organization except those that care more about being loved than contributing to liberty and democracy faces the same challenges. A key reason appears to be a shortage of competent ...