News from around Johnson County as reported on July 17 in the pages of the Daily Journal and the Franklin Evening Star from the last 113 years.

The Richardson’s ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains. The little creature also is a ferocious tunneler, and it’s exasperating the people ...

Scottie Scheffler has won more tournaments and majors than anyone over the last three years. He is No. 1 in the world and no one is close to him. Nothing would mean more to him than leaving Royal ...

The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an ...

Edinburgh officials were met with dozens of concerned residents at a meeting to consider updates to the town’s zoning ...

Make American Coke Great Again? President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in its flagship soft drink in the U.S. at his suggestion — though the company ...

Beaver tails, corn, ice cream, bags of ice and more are purchased by attendees throughout the Johnson County 4-H & ...

A federal judge in Maryland could soon become the second to block President Donald Trump’s order restricting birthright ...

The man killed in a fatal Franklin crash is being remembered for his go-getter attitude and love of family and sports.

Communities along a 700-mile (1,127-km) stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a ...

For the second year in a row, Franklin College head coach Chris Hamilton is embarking on a path not just to make him a better ...

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing ...