Jefferson County News

The Meriden couple - who combined have six biological children - have been foster parents to 10 children over the past 1 1/2 years.

Renie Stephan conducted a year-long health assessment of Jefferson County as part of her doctorate studies at KU.

Caution tape defines the areas where diesel fuel overflowed from an underground tank and flowed into a residential neighborhood in McLouth Friday night.

After just one week of operation, some citizens of Valley Falls have already had enough of a new police auxiliary program, which allows some private citizens to patrol the town in place of police officers.

Some 40 people attened the Valley Falls City Council meeting Wednesday where concerns were expressed that non-professionally trained police auxiliary volunteers were doing patrol duties that should be done by full-time officers.

The old U.S. 24 Highway bridge over the Delaware River in Perry was shut down over the weekend permanently due to major damage to the bridge's underlying support system.