Police: Officers shoot, injure armed man outside Kansas bank Sheriff’s deputies have shot and injured a man they say was armed with a gun and heading into a Kansas bank. The shooting happened Thursday afternoon in Leon as Butler County sheriff’s deputies sought to serve an arrest warrant on James Watts, 53, of Leon, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
How is your Lenten season treating you? I recognize that not everyone engages in the Lenten season in the same way. Even if concepts of Lent are new or not normally on the radar screen, I still invite you to consider the season.
Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger told Russians in a video posted on social media Thursday they’re being lied to about the war in Ukraine and accused President Vladimir Putin of sacrificing Russian soldiers’ lives for his own ambitions.
A sister of a 12-year-old boy who was shot last year in Leavenworth has been charged in connection to the boy’s murder, court records show. Brooke M.
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Following a discussion Wednesday about a landfill near Easton, Leavenworth County commissioners plan to revisit the matter next week to review progress and plans for… Login to continue reading Login…
Basehor’s Gray Hawk Elementary School music teacher Madi Penfield recently asked citizens in the community to donate five-gallon plastic buckets to be used by students for drumming. Originally hoping for 30 buckets so that each student in a class could have one, a secondary goal was to collect an additional 30 buckets so each classroom in the school could have a bucket to use for emotional regulation throughout the day as needed. In the end, 70 buckets were received which will allow some buckets to be held in reserve as they are worn out over the years.
Hundreds of people turned out for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Thursday in downtown Leavenworth.
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations across the country were back after a two-year hiatus, including the nation’s largest in New York City, in a sign of growing hope that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic may be over.
Kansas City woman pleads guilty in fatal 2020 hit-and-run A woman has pleaded guilty to two felony counts for a 2020 fatal hit-and-run during a drag race on a Kansas City street. Shabazz Frencher, 24, of Kansas City, recently pleaded guilty to drunken driving while intoxicated resulting in death and leaving the scene of a fatal crash.