There is something upside down in this country, according to one of the men who spoke Saturday at a rally in Leavenworth.

“One community, one goal.”

That’s the theme Superintendent Kelly Harris has chosen this year for the Leavenworth public schools.
 

Emergency personnel from various agencies spent about an hour searching the Missouri River Thursday night for a man who was believed to have jumped off the Centennial Bridge. It turned out the man had climbed to the underside of the bridge and was OK, a Leavenworth police spokesman.

A Leavenworth man has been charged with kidnapping and attempted rape after he allegedly attacked a woman as she jogged Thursday in southwest Leavenworth, according to police and prosecution officials.

The Lansing City Council voted on Thursday to raise the tax it charges those staying in one of the city’s lodging facilities.
 

Even though not all of the construction work is done, Leavenworth High School already has undergone a dramatic change, the building’s principal said.

The Leavenworth Preservation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to deny a church’s request for a permit to demolish the old East Middle School building.

A man was killed Tuesday as the result of a crash in Platte County, Mo., according to a Sheriff’s Department news release.

A date has been set for a contempt of court proceeding for a witness in an involuntary manslaughter case who has been accused of violating a court order.

Judge David King is the chief judge of the 1st District court, which includes the Leavenworth area.

Co-owner and CEO of Foutch Brothers, LLC, a development company behind the the proposed Tire Town project

A former U.S. senator from Nebraska visited Leavenworth Tuesday to announce his endorsement for a man running for attorney general of Kansas.

Earlier in August, the Leavenworth City Commission signed on as a partner in a regional initiative that could bring money to the area for future projects.
 

Two people suffered minor injuries Friday when a car crashed into a Leavenworth home, a police spokesman said.

Two teenage sisters were arrested Monday evening in Leavenworth after they allegedly drew knives on each other during an argument, a police spokesman said.

In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, students in the Leavenworth public schools will be focusing on character traits this year.

A man was arrested after he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman Monday afternoon at a Lansing residence, a police spokesman said.

Though they agreed last week to a third-party agreement, the Leavenworth County Commission decided on Monday to lend money for the paving of a subdivision road in the sourthern part of the county themselves.

One person was taken to the hospital as a precaution following a crash involving a FedEx truck Friday in southwest Leavenworth County, according to a report from the Sheriff’s Office.

A man has pleaded no contest to a 2009 attempted murder in Leavenworth.
Stanley J. Cason, 32, entered the plea Friday afternoon in Leavenworth County District Court.