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• The Leavenworth Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the district’s administrative office, 200 N.

A driver had to be extricated from her vehicle following a crash Thursday on U.S. 24-40, according to an official with the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next hearing for Oct. 13, pushing the investigation back into the limelight less than three weeks before the midterm election that will determine control of Congress.

New outrage ripped through Uvalde on Thursday over revelations that a school police officer hired after the Robb Elementary massacre was not only on campus during the May attack as a Texas state trooper but under investigation over her actions while a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.

The city of Leavenworth has been awarded a $1.265 million grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation that will be used to make improvements to Vilas Street. City Manager Paul Kramer said the grant will help pay for the reconstruction of Vilas Street between 20th and 22nd streets.

Republican nominee pivots to crime in Kansas governor’s race The Republican candidate for Kansas governor is pivoting from education to crime as a focus in the final weeks of the campaign, portraying the Democratic incumbent as anti-police because she created a commission on policing and racial justice in response to the state’s protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020. GOP challenger Derek Schmidt, the state’s three-term attorney general, launched a new television ad Thursday against Democratic Gov.

The Fairmount Township Fire Department will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.