A brief but tense standoff Saturday afternoon in the drive-thru lane at Wendy’s in Hillsboro led to the jailing of a 39-year-old women who had fled domestic violence in Oklahoma, was evicted Friday ...

Commissioners took a second look at a draft of a proposed anti-30x30 program resolution they first saw a week before. They suggested some changes and once again sent it back for county counsel Brad ...

Another Day in the Country. Take me out to the ballgame . By PAT WICK © Another Day in the Country. This past weekend, our family was at several ballgames in Hillsboro with a lot ...

Every school district in Marion County has notified the county that it intends to increase its tax levy. So has every recreation commission except Goessel’s, half the towns, three fire districts, ...

The cost of education has gotten very high. That’s what’s driving so many students to community colleges instead of universities. But high costs are not limited to secondary education. They trickle ...

Meredith Sarver wanted to donate a kidney to her father, Glen Kliewer. Their blood types didn’t match, so she couldn’t. But that wasn’t the end of the story. When they traveled to Research Medical ...

He was right that actions cannot be taken except during official meetings, but the Open Meetings Act forbids any gatherings of officials outside of public view except in limited circumstances in which ...

A Hillsboro woman was arrested Thursday after she drove into the path of an oncoming pickup pulling a trailer. The accident, which tied up traffic on US-50 for nearly 2½ hours, happened just north of ...

An Abilene couple appear to have found a way to “game the system” of camping rules at the county lake.

Arianna Wilson from Peabody’s fire district and Ella Mackey from Florence’s fire district are this year’s winners of Marion County Fire Chiefs Association Scholarships. They were selected from 20 ...

Physical education and health director Shaun Craft, who was riding on the bus, called transportation director Darrel Shults. Shults said if the bus could safely make it to the rest area, it should do ...

A collision between a semi and a tractor Tuesday on K-15 five miles north of Hillsboro sent both drivers to hospitals and required extensive cleanup of fluids and corn that spilled from the truck.