A police officer in Kansas who fatally shot a former police detective during a scuffle will not be charged with a crime, officials said. The Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office and the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office investigated the November shooting of Lionel Womack and found no wrongdoing.
There is only one real war. This is not a new war. It’s been around since the beginning of time. It’s a war on truth. In Genesis 3:1, the war on truth began with a question that Satan posed to Eve, “Did God really say?” Since that time, we have been in war against lies.
Harini Logan kept trying to learn from her near-misses in online spelling bees. Recognized for years as one of the best spellers in the English language, she had never taken home a national title.
Kylee Dominick, Reven Mendoza-Smith, Addie Allen, Mary Beth Casey and Roman Smith are shown in rehearsal for the youth performance of “The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf.” The River City Community Players’ production will be performed this weekend at the Performing Arts Center in downtown Leavenworth. The show is the directing debut for Rachel Szmed. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. All tickets are available for $5. Photograph by Ron Mazzia
Shown is a David Austin rose in Ron and Victoria Davids’ garden in Basehor. Ron Davids .
Hungarian blue poppy, an annual bloom in the garden of Ron and Victoria Davids in Basehor. Ron Davids .
Shown are the Victorian gardens at the Carroll Mansion Museum, 1128 Fifth Ave. in Leavenworth. Visitors to the museum have been enjoying the gardens maintained by the Leavenworth Master Gardeners. Laura Elkins
Four days of celebrations honoring Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne kicked off Thursday with a display of British military traditions stretching from the days of horse and cannon to the jet age.
Two men were arrested for allegedly burglarizing a Leavenworth business, a police spokesman said. The Leavenworth men were taken into custody Tuesday after they allegedly were inside a business while it was closed, according to Maj.
Man found guilty of killing woman he was accused of stalking A Missouri man has been convicted of killing a woman he was accused of stalking and faces life in prison when he’s sentenced in October. On Tuesday, a Johnson County jury found Clyde James Barnes Jr., 44, of Kansas City, guilty of first-degree murder and other counts in the 2020 killing of 42-year-old Jessica Smith in her Olathe home.