Julie Lorenz, secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation, was guest speaker at a meeting of Chapter EN, P.E O. this past week. P.E.O. is a philanthropic organization dedicated to the educational advancement of women. Rosemary Snow
The Basehor Police Department is joining in the tradition of police departments around the country in creating commemorative coins. Created reminiscent of military challenge coins, BPD had 100 coins minted to support April’s Autism Awareness Month.
Amid the push to get U.S. boardrooms to look more like companies’ customers and employees, advocates are finally seeing just how steep the task will be.
The Leavenworth Farmers Market is set to open for its 2022 season on Saturday morning. The Farmers Market is located at Haymarket Square, Seventh and Cherokee streets.
Kansas gamer pleads guilty for role in fatal ‘swatting’ case A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a hoax call that led to a fatal shooting of an innocent bystander by Wichita police in 2017. Shane Gaskell, 23, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud in case that drew national attention to “swatting,” during which a caller falsely reports a crime that is dangerous enough to send a SWAT team to the location.
Heavy fighting raged Thursday at the shattered steel plant in Mariupol as Russian forces sought to finish off the city’s lastditch defenders and complete the capture of the strategically vital Ukrainian port.
More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week but the total number of people collecting jobless aid is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Jobless claims in the U.S.
The University of Missouri has proposed disciplinary sanctions against 13 students as part of its investigation into an October fraternity pledge party that left a student from Minnesota with brain injuries.
Last year, Leavenworth County commissioners voted to provide up to $2 million in funding to the city of Basehor for a 155th Street improvement project. But Basehor officials have objected to a proposed contract related to this funding pledge.
Oklahoma joined Texas this week to form a region that parts of a nation divided over abortion care might look like if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down its landmark Roe v.