Whenever a season changes or a big snow falls, I can count on readers to send in their photos of the local sights.When a new school year gets under way, parents snap those first-day photos and email them my way, per a simple note on Facebook and Twitter asking for readers to share their ...
It was about two years ago that Cheryl Hanback, Keyta Kelly and I headed to Newton for the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s Big Rural Brainstorm.Folks from across the state gathered for a weekend of idea sharing — what worked for our communities, what didn’t and what we’d like to see our ...
The new year always begins with ambitious resolutions. Despite lofty personal goals for 2014, the truth is most people fall short of achieving them. According to the Journal of Clinical Psychology, about 54 percent of people fail to maintain their resolutions at the six-month mark of the new ...
Topeka ? The Kansas Hospital Association has hired a former Republican cabinet secretary to develop a plan for expanding Medicaid that the group hopes Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-led Kansas Legislature can support.According to a report by the KHI News Service, the hospital association has ...
Topeka ? A Kansas man was arrested Friday on charges that he planned to set off a car bomb at the Wichita airport in an attack intended to support al-Qaida, authorities said.Terry Lee Loewen, a 58-year-old avionics technician who worked at the airport, was arrested before dawn as tried to enter ...
Topeka ? Public schools will have less money per student than the Legislature intended when making the recent state budget, unless Gov. Sam Brownback and legislators provide more money when the 2014 legislative session starts next month.That's because the statewide property tax has produced ...
On Friday evening the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office will conduct a "saturation patrol" in southern Leavenworth County in an effort to reduce the number of intoxicated drivers.The patrol will put additional officers on the roadways of Leavenworth County at a time of year when, the ...
Three Leavenworth County men suspected in several burglaries around the Kansas City metro area were arrested last week on drug charges after they allegedly were found with more than a pound of methamphetamines.Randall Bell, 46, and Joseph Bittner, 34, of Edwardsville, and Matthew W. Wright, ...
Kansas City, Mo. ? The death of a Missouri man in an Arrowhead Stadium parking lot during Kansas City’s game this weekend was ruled a homicide Wednesday, but police said it could still take weeks before they know what killed him.Kyle Van Winkle, 30, of Smithville, was unconscious on the ...
Community National Bank announced this week the hiring of Steven Ketteler as Branch President in Basehor. Ketteler has over 20 years of experience in commercial banking with a BS degree from the University of Nebraska with an emphasis in finance. He attended the Colorado Graduate School of ...
