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A Leavenworth man was arrested after he allegedly battered another man, causing an orbital fracture and broken ribs, a police spokesman said. The crime was reported at about 7 p.m.

Three people were injured in a shooting outside a Chicago-area amusement park’s entrance that sent visitors scrambling for safety and prompted the park to close early, authorities said. Officers responded about 7:50 p.m.

Wire reports Wichita officer won’t be charged in man’s fatal shooting A Wichita police officer who shot and killed a man during a domestic violence incident will not be charged, Sedgwick County District Attorney Mark Bennett said. The officer, who was a member of the department’s SWAT team, shot Jason Williams, 37, in December 2020 in Riverside after Williams had shot his estranged wife and killed his mother-in-law, 52-year-old Michelle Barr, at a Wichita home.

After temperatures neared 100 degrees over weekend, local residents should experience cooler conditions this week. “It’s going to be nice,” said Chuck Magaha, director of Leavenworth County Emergency Management.

An anti-abortion activist who heads a small hard-right Republican group said he’s offered to pay the expected $229,000 cost of a hand recount of votes from every Kansas county after a decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights.

The Leavenworth County Development Corporation Board of Directors recently voted to allow the expansion of their board. And they discussed a request from the County Commission to allow a representative of the county to serve on LCDC’s executive committee.

An increase in turnout among Democrats and independents and a notable shift in Republican-leaning counties contributed to the overwhelming support of abortion rights last week in traditionally conservative Kansas, according to a detailed Associated Press analysis of the voting results.

With the school year set to start next week, the principal of Pleasant Ridge High School has announced plans for a homecoming parade. Principal Scott Kessler said the high school in the Easton school district may have had a homecoming parade in the past, but it has been decades since one has taken place.