South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has been around women’s basketball long enough to see the growing pains of a young WNBA league gradually shifting to increased interest in the sport at all levels. “We probably are bursting at the seams for the people that are decision-makers in our game to allow us to be just that,” said Staley, who led the Gamecocks to their second women’s hoops title this year.
Wire reports Mega Millions Tuesday jackpot surpasses estimated $565M The holiday shopping season — for Mega Millions lottery ticket buyers, at least — is ramping up as officials say the estimated jackpot for Tuesday night’s drawing has surpassed half a billion dollars. As of late Monday, lottery officials estimate Tuesday’s prize at $565 million — or more than $293 million if delivered in cash — after there were no lucky winners holding a ticket that matched all six numbers in the last drawing held on Friday.
Holiday sales rose this year as American spending remained resilient during the critical shopping season despite surging prices on everything from food to rent, according to one measure. Holiday sales rose 7.6, a slower pace than the 8.5% increase from a year earlier when shoppers began spending the money they had saved during the early part of the pandemic, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks all kinds of payments including cash and debit cards.
Theresa Louise Reid, 81, of Basehor, Kan., passed away on Monday, December 19, 2022. No services are scheduled at this time.
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A woman was killed in a head-on collision on Kansas 7 Highway west of Leavenworth, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. The crash was reported at 7:10 p.m.
In the conclusion of “A Christmas Carol,” after Scrooge has been shown that in the future when he dies no one will care, he cries out to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that he is not the man he was, that in the future he will keep Christmas not only on Christmas Day but year-round. As we conclude the Christmas season of 2022, it is appropriate to think how we can keep the spirit of Christmas alive throughout the year. Given that Leavenworth is a military town, let me focus on three ways relevant to the military to keep the spirit of Christmas alive year-round.
After local residents experienced extremely cold weather last week, unseasonably warm conditions are expected this week. “It’s definitely on the upswing,” Leavenworth County Emergency Management Director Chuck Magaha said of the weather.