Qantas plane lands safely after mayday call over Pacific A Qantas flight traveling from New Zealand to Sydney landed safely on a single engine after it issued a mayday call over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. Qantas Flight 144 with 145 passengers aboard landed at Sydney Airport from Auckland, New Zealand, after a 3.5-hour flight between the neighboring nations’ most populous cities.
The Leavenworth County-Cities Drug and Alcohol Abuse Council is now accepting grant applications for the 2023 grant cycle. All applications must be postmarked by Feb.
A galactic photo shoot has captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest sky surveys ever. A dark-energy camera on a telescope in Chile made the observations over two years, focusing on the Southern Hemisphere sky.
The American Legion Boys State of Kansas is taking registrations for its 2023 session. The event is scheduled to be held June 4-10 at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
The Leavenworth County Commission has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a lawsuit involving a landfill near Easton. Commissioners approved the settlement agreement when they met Wednesday.
The Lansing superintendent of public schools will leave his position at the end of the school year. During a special meeting Tuesday, members of the… Login to continue reading Login…
A former researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while employed by the University of Kansas, which prosecutors say cost the school and federal agencies hundreds of thousands of dollars, was to be sentenced Wednesday on one felony count of making a false statement.
Wire reports Ex-Missouri police chief indicted in drug overdose death The former police chief of a small northeast Missouri town is facing second-degree murder charges after his girlfriend’s brother died of a drug overdose in his home last year. William E.
David Crary AP National Writer Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they gather Friday in Washington for the annual March for Life. The march, which includes a rally drawing abortion opponents from across the nation, has been held annually since January 1974 — a year after the U.S.