Colette Kiszka, engineering administrative assistant for the city of Leavenworth, and Terry Smith, an engineering technician, place American flags on the grounds of Leavenworth City Hall. City staff placed flags around City Hall on Friday ahead of Memorial Day weekend.
When they met this week, Leavenworth County commissioners approved a proposal for soil stabilization for a 158th Street project. Commissioners authorized up to $300,000 to be spent on the soil stabilization.
The waters of Stranger Creek were back within its banks Friday following flooding a day earlier. The flooding resulted in road closures near the creek including Kansas 192 Highway in Easton.
For the first time in nearly 50 years, families and friends will be able to observe Memorial Day at Greenwood Cemetery in Leavenworth. This uniquely historic city-owned cemetery, which has recently been named to both the Register of Historic Kansas Places and the National Register of Historic Places, will be open and accessible on Memorial Day, May 30, from 1-4 p.m. Families or those interested in this historical site are encouraged to visit and take the opportunity to decorate graves.
Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman, authorities said Friday.
With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a troubling case closer to home: troopers’ deadly arrest of Ronald Greene.
In response to an explosive investigation, top Southern Baptists have released a previously secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse. The 205-page database was made public late Thursday.
Russia-backed separatists claimed they captured a railway hub city in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces pushed to gain more ground Friday by pounding another Ukrainian-held area where authorities say 1,500 people have died since the start of the war.
A Leavenworth man who is charged with second-degree murder in connection to a shooting last week will undergo an evaluation to determine if he is competent to stand trial. A judge ordered the evaluation of Ryan C.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee was quick to react to this week’s carnage at a Texas elementary school, sending a tweet listing the gun control measures the Democratic-controlled state has taken. He finished with: “Your turn Congress.”