A man charged with threatening to kill a Kansas congressman is harmless, believing he has a special relationship with God and his weapons are “meteors and plagues,” not “knives and guns,” a defense attorney argued during a federal criminal trial.
While design work is ongoing, Leavenworth city commissioners were presented pictures this week of what a new Missouri River bridge may look like. The design work is for a bridge that would replace the existing Centennial Bridge, which stretches from north Leavenworth to Platte County, Missouri.
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.
For 16 years, Leavenworth Backpack Buddies has helped provide food each Friday for kids who are food insecure. The program is currently serving 356 students in the Leavenworth public schools from pre-kindergarten to third grade.
More than 50 boys and girls from Kansas and Missouri gathered at Leavenworth’s First Presbyterian Church on Monday morning, which was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to carry out a service project in honoring the life and legacy of the slain civil rights leader.
The NFL has directed the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills to begin selling tickets for a possible AFC championship game in Atlanta on Jan. 29.
A failed Republican candidate who authorities said was angry over his defeat and made baseless claims the election last November was “rigged” against him was arrested in connection with a series of drive-by shootings targeting the homes of Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico’s largest city.
The Leavenworth Mission Community Store and Food Pantry has resumed indoor distribution of food pantry items. Iris Arnold, president of the Leavenworth Mission, said the organization started the practice of distributing items outdoors as a drive-through service because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wire reports Missouri man sentenced for shooting deaths of wife, in-laws A southwest Missouri man who shot and killed his wife and her parents because he was upset his in-laws would not leave their house has been sentenced to life in prison. Jesse Huy, 50, of Strafford, was sentenced Friday to three life terms with no parole for murder and nine years for armed criminal action.
John Deere kicked at the dirt. It was sticky, very different from the soil back in Vermont, where he had been born in 1804.