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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.

The House is swiftly working to put its stamp on gun legislation in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York by 18-year-old assailants who used semi-automatic rifles to kill 31 people, including 19 children.

A man who blamed his surgeon for continuing pain after a recent back operation bought an ARstyle rifle and opened fire hours later at a Tulsa medical office, killing the doctor and three other people in an attack that ended with him taking his own life, police said Thursday.

Researchers are drawing attention to a rise in poisonings in children involving the sleep aid melatonin — including a big jump during the pandemic. Last year, U.S.

A federal judge is set to preside over an important hearing for John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and is on the verge of being released from all remaining restrictive conditions.