Starting next weekend, deputies with the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office will join the Kansas Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies in the state in the Thanksgiving Safe Arrival traffic enforcement campaign.
Even the county’s top prosecutor gets summoned for jury duty. County Attorney Todd Thompson said he recently received a summons for jury duty for a trial next month in Leavenworth County District Court.
Federal health officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans once stationed at a now-shuttered California military base were exposed to dangerously high levels of cancer-causing toxins.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs were trying to put away the Tennessee Titans in overtime last weekend when Carlos Dunlap and Chris Jones reached the quarterback at the same time, dragging Malik Willis to the turf for a sack.
The Leavenworth County government is increasing the amount it charges to treat the rights-ofway of state highways for noxious weed control. But one county commissioner asked what will happen if the Kansas Department of Transportation does not agree to the price increases.
Artistic Works by Lu, located at 221 Delaware St. in Leavenworth, celebrated 15 years of business this month. The studio-boutique features chic clothing and handmade jewelry created by owner Lu Knueven.
A Massachusetts Democrat is the country’s first openly lesbian candidate to be elected to the office of governor. In Maryland, voters elected the state’s first Black governor. Vermont will finally send a woman to Congress, after being the only state not to ever have female representation in the House.
The Kansas State Board of Education on Thursday recommended that the state’s public school districts eliminate Native American mascots and branding to reduce their harmful impacts on students. The board approved a motion making a “strong recommendation” that Kansas public K-12 nontribal schools retire Native American-themed mascots and branding as soon as possible but within the next three to five years at the latest.
No. 2 Saint Mary will play for the KCAC men’s soccer championship.