MISSION – Patients are dying in emergency rooms of small Kansas hospitals as larger hospitals that are struggling with soaring staff absences and COVID-19 cases turn down transfers. Hospitals across the state painted a dire picture Wednesday of worsening conditions as the highly contagious omicron variant collides with a delta surge.
Leavenworth County commissioners will look to school children to design a logo for a county challenge coin. County commissioners discussed the contest when they met Wednesday.
WASHINGTON – As a raging band of his supporters scaled walls, smashed windows, used flagpoles to beat police and breached the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn a fair election, Donald Trump’s excommunication from the Republican Party seemed a near certainty, his name tarnished beyond repair.
NEW ORLEANS – Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Cori Bush is no stranger to protests.
One-year after a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol led by supporters of former President Donald Trump trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused his colleagues across the aisle for trying to “exploit this anniversary.”
Dear Annie: Our son has been married to a lovely girl for over 20 years. She is a daughter-in-law everyone should have.
James Stanton Wallace was born in Leavenworth on Feb. 12, 1920, the son of Thomas E.
A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to more than one year in prison for lying to police about his identity, according to a prosecution official. Delshaun WInston, 27, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for interference with law enforcement.
A Leavenworth County Special Olympics basketball practice scheduled for this weekend has been canceled. Local Program Coordinator Vicki Lozenski said Special Olympics Kansas has canceled all practices and competitions for the rest of the month because of concerns about COVID-19.