As the sun set in Wyoming, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney described her blowout loss as the beginning of a more consequential step in her political career. She summoned Abraham Lincoln, who lost elections for the House and Senate and still went on to become one of the nation’s most accomplished presidents.
The woman was crumpled on the floor of a mangled Mercedes, unconscious and struggling to breathe. The French doctor had no idea who she was, and focused on trying to save her.
Leavenworth city commissioners voted last week to approve a 2023 operating budget that exceeds what is referred to as the city’s revenue neutral rate. This means the city will collect more in property taxes for the 2023 budget than it did for 2022.
The Leavenworth County Master Gardeners will host the Live Life in Full Bloom Garden Symposium on Sept. 17 from 8:30 a.m.
On the last day of voting in Colorado’s June primary, a poll worker sent to wipe down a voting machine found a concerning error message on its screen: “USB device change detected.” The machine, used to mark ballots electronically, was taken out of use and an investigation launched. The message raised concerns that a voter had tried to tamper with it by inserting an off-theshelf thumb drive.
The Interior Department is giving 24 states a total of $560 million to start cleaning high-priority derelict oil and gas wells abandoned on state and private land, the department said Thursday. It said up to 10,000 wells could be dealt with as the government begins allocating $4.7 billion set aside to create an orphan well cleanup program under the bipartisan infrastructure plan approved late last year.
Administrators at a Nebraska school shuttered the school’s award-winning student newspaper just days after its last edition that included articles and editorials on LGBTQ issues, leading press freedom advocates to call the move an act of censorship.
Two people were transported to area hospitals after a traffic incident Wednesday in the south part of the county. A 73-year-old male from Tonganoxie driving a Ford truck was traveling east on State Avenue approaching 198th Street when another truck, driven by a 48-yearold Tonganoxie woman, rear-ended the Ford truck.
Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.
Wire reports Jerry Allison, drummer for Buddy Holly, dead at 82 Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the classic “Peggy Sue,” has died. He was 82.