De Soto News

While authorities continue to search for the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Lenexa, Kan., Faye Bird said she remembers the 84-year-old victim who was struck and killed on Monday.

Bonner Springs : Sales only permitted between July 1 and July 4. Discharge only permitted between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. on July 3 and 4. De Soto : Fireworks - except for bottle rockets - legal on private property on July 3 from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. or July 4 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eudora : Fireworks legal on private property.

Demands for food assistance in Johnson County have increased 21 percent in the first five months of this year compared to the same period in 2008, and to help satisfy that need, the county recently kicked off its 2009 Feed the Need campaign.

DE SOTO, Kan. a ' A man was critically injured in a one-car, rollover accident in rural Johnson County Saturday morning.

The Johnson County Commission today approved a series of bus fare increases, including a 50-cent hike for the popular express route linking Overland Park and Lawrence.The increase raises the price of a trip to $3 on the K-10 Connector, which runs between Johnson County Community College and the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence.The increase, ...

De Soto, Kan. - Parents and students in Ankeny, Ia., who wonder what happens when a community outgrows one high school can find some answers in this Kansas City, Mo., suburb.

Former Olathe school superintendent Ron Wimmer is coming out of retirement to lead the De Soto school district while the school board searches for a new superintendent.

Sharon Zoellner DE SOTO, Kan. a ' Three district administrators, including the superintendent, handed in their resignation during a DeSoto USD 232 Board of Education meeting Thursday.

DE SOTO, Kan. a ' Deputies wrote 81 traffic citations this week during just 5 hours of special enforcement on K-10 Highway this week.

If students in the De Soto school district have extra-wide grins on their faces this morning, maybe it's because they've learned their school year will end two and a half days early.

DE SOTO, Kan. a ' In an effort to reduce costs, The De Soto School District will move up its last day of school by two and a half days, district officials said Thursday.

Part of an elementary school was a crime scene Monday morning as deputies combed the building for clues to a weekend theft.

A fare increase could be in store for Johnson County bus riders, including the popular express route between Overland Park and Lawrence.Johnson County Transit is proposing a 50-cent increase, effective May 11, for the K-10 Connector linking Johnson County Community College to the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Johnson and Leavenworth counties today picked up more than $2 million in federal stimulus money for road and bridge projects.The projects were among 77 statewide sharing in $34 million for cities and counties outside the Kansas City and Wichita metro areas.Neither Leavenworth nor Johnson County governments received a piece of the $50 million ...

As the economy gets worse, officials in Johnson County say they want to move forward with the largest capital improvements project in its history.Last week, county commissioners informally agreed to take the ...

A budget reduction approved Thursday by the Kansas Legislature would cut state education dollars by $12.9 million for the 16 school district in Johnson, Wyandotte and Leavenworth counties.Overall, Kansas ...

As the drumbeat for historic state budget cuts grows louder in Topeka, Kansas school districts are preparing parents and staff members for the pain.Jill Ann Shackelford, superintendent of the Kansas City, Kan., ...

Johnson County sheriff’s deputies have made another arrest in connection with an alleged identity-theft ring busted earlier this month.Deputies were tipped off on Tuesday that Arturo Rios Morales would be ...

Though the number of identity theft cases may be on the decline across the United States, that particular brand of crime is no stranger to Johnson County.

Public schools in Johnson and Wyandotte counties have already begun tightening their belts in anticipation of fewer state education dollars.The Blue Valley School District in Johnson County announced a hiring ...