Basehor-Linwood High School senior Bailey Jensen has been crocheting soft octopus figurines for babies in neo-natal intensive care units since 2019 as part of her community service hour requirement for the National Honor Society. Her mom had worked in several NICUs over the years and let Jensen know that studies showed that when premature babies cuddled with a crocheted octopus, they had more regular heart rates and better oxygenation.
The NCAA asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to reject a legal effort to make colleges treat Division I athletes like employees and start paying them an hourly wage. Lawyers for the student-athletes said that weekly, they often spend 30 hours or more on their sport and often need money for expenses, even if they are on full scholarship.
Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as the one of the country’s most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Thursday. He was 81.
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, still recovering from a stroke, has checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to seek treatment for clinical depression, his office said Thursday.
Wire reports Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he will challenge a subpoena by the special counsel overseeing investigations into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election and will go all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. “Let me clear: I am going to fight the Biden DOJ subpoena to appear before the grand jury because I think it’s unprecedented and it’s unconstitutional,’” Pence told reporters in Minneapolis.
Members of the public will have the opportunity next week to learn about the plans for a new Missouri River bridge in Leavenworth. An open house for a Centennial Bridge replacement project is scheduled for 4-7 p.m.
The chairwoman of the Leavenworth County Commission has learned she is not the first woman to serve in that position after all. When appointed last month to the position of Leavenworth County Commission chairperson by her fellow commissioners, Vicky Kaaz said records indicated she was the first woman to serve in that position.
All eyes were on coach Andy Reid as fans cheered his arrival on the Super Bowl parade route Wednesday in downtown Kansas City. The Chiefs won the Super Bowl on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles. Hundreds of thousands of fans poured into downtown to celebrate the victory. Did you attend the parade? Share your photos with the Times. Email the photo and information to MRountree@cherryroad.com Peggy Bair
While forecasters had been predicting up to three inches of snow, a winter storm that passed through Thursday produced more freezing rain than snow in Leavenworth County. Leavenworth County Emergency Management Director Chuck Magaha estimated that Leavenworth County received about one tenth of an inch of ice as a result of the storm.
Fans lined up Wednesday morning to get a prime spot in downtown Kansas City as the city celebrated the Kansas City Chiefs’ second Super Bowl championship in two years. Chiefs coach Andy Reid and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes joined teammates, family and Chiefs officials as they rode in open-air vehicles down a main downtown street to a rally at Union Station.