Wire report Mexico will attempt to send an aquatic drone into a collapsed coal mine where 10 miners have been trapped since last week. Laura Velázquez, national Civil Defense coordinator, said Monday that images from the drone could help authorities decide whether to send in divers without putting them at risk.
Jeremy Dodd, Billy Burgess, Charles Jordan and Chris Shoemaker Chris Avenenti Josh Potter Leavenworth County Special Olympics athletes brought home several medals at a recent bowling tournament. The athletes will compete in the state Special Olympics bowling tournament on Friday.
Wire reports Kansas City police shoot, kill driver of stolen SUV Kansas City police shot and killed a man who he sped toward an officer in a stolen sport utility vehicle and struck a police van, authorities said. The shooting happened around 9:45 p.m.
Associated Press In a growing challenge to Russia’s grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and helping the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets. The spreading resistance has eroded Kremlin control of those areas and threatened its plans to hold referendums in various cities as a move toward annexation by Russia.
Staff report A woman declined to be transported to the hospital after her car went airborne after going off of a highway in Leavenworth County, according to an official with the Sheriff’s Office. The crash was reported at 8:20 p.m.
John Richmeier Leavenworth Times The city of Basehor is one the most tax friendly cities in Kansas for retirees. That is according to the SmartAsset website.
John Richmeier Leavenworth Times A Leavenworth school board member objected to a contractor that will provide speech therapy for students. Board member Vanessa Reid raised her objectives Monday as the Leavenworth school board considered contracting with DotCom Therapy, which offers teletherapy services.
Associated Press The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mara- Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said Monday, a move that represents a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of the former president. Trump, disclosing the search in a lengthy statement, asserted that agents had opened up a safe at his home and described their work as an “unannounced raid” that he likened to “prosecutorial misconduct.” The search intensifies the months-long probe into how classified documents ended up in boxes of White House records located at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.
Once each month, Basehor United Methodist Church offers its members the opportunity to help stock the pantry at Basehor Linwood Assistance Services. Members of the church are encouraged to take a purple bag that contains a list of food and other items that are most needed by BLAS and return it the next week with those items that will be distributed to the families served by the organization. Known as Purple Bag Sunday, purchased items are then taken to the pantry and organized by volunteers.
Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations.