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Local news for Leawood, KS continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

12 hrs ago | Oil and Gas Investor

Tortoise Prices $27.8MM Share Offering To Pay Debt

Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp., Leawood, Kan., has priced a $27.8 million offering of 1.1 million shares at $25.25 per share to pay debt, acquire equity portfolio securities and for working capital ...

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Sat Oct 04, 2008

Kansas City Star

Public safety: Westport shooting wounds two

Gunfire wounded a man and woman and put holes in three vehicles about 3:10 a.m. Friday at the BP gas station in the 4000 block of Broadway.

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Related Topix: Johnson County, KS

Fri Oct 03, 2008

Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

Alpert's latest project brings new urbanism to Leawood

Move over, Boardwalk, it's all about Park Place - at least in Leawood. The new, urban-style, mixed-use development comes from local developers Jeff Alpert and Melanie Mann.

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KansasCity.com

Man back from Mexico to face rape charges

A man accused of sexually attacking two Leawood women four years ago and then fleeing to Mexico had his first court appearance today in Johnson County District Court.Daniel C. Ojeda, 26, was extradited from ...

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Related Topix: Johnson County, KS

Thu Oct 02, 2008

PR-inside.com

Kansas City's Integral Life Foundation Leads Medical Team Treats Several Hundred Haitian Orphans

Dan Tasset, founder of ILF also returned from a separate mission the week before, providing food and supplies to the areas devastated by Hurricanes Hanna and Ike.

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Related Topix: Kansas City, KS, Haiti, World News

St. Louis Nursing News

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Young Johnson Countians are making a political statement. As of Sept. 25, 29,888 people ages 18 to 24 had registered to vote, said Johnson County Election Systems Manager Sarah Horn .

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Johnson County, KS, US Politics, John McCain, US News, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election

Tue Sep 30, 2008

Kansas City InfoZine

Johnson County Library to Close Leawood Pioneer Branch

The current library is 11,800 sq. ft. and an additional 8,000 sq. ft. will be added.

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Related Topix: Johnson County, KS

Mon Sep 29, 2008

The Topeka Capital-Journal

Women sentenced in immigrant mortgage fraud

Two Leawood women have been sentenced to probation for helping illegal immigrants commit $7.7 million in mortgage fraud through the use of stolen Social Security numbers.

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Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Johnson County, KS

Sat Sep 27, 2008

Sojourners

Talking to the New Evangelical Voters

During the final week of the 2000 presidential election, I was in the fall semester of my freshman year in college, feeling incredibly hungry - hungrier than I had ever been before.

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Thu Sep 25, 2008

St. Louis Nursing News

Skeletal remains: Four years later, abandoned office building awaits rescue

Seville Home owner Stuart Wilkins said his store has large windows on every side, but he has chosen to close the window coverings on the south side of his building.

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Tue Sep 23, 2008

Kansas City Star

LAM Development: New homes blend older neighborhoods

LAM Development offers clients the opportunity to build a custom, upper-bracket new home in old Leawood, Prairie Village or Mission Hills on a lot where a home existed, with the goal of causing little or no ...

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Related Topix: Kansas City, MO Metro, Kansas City, KS, Prairie Village, KS, Johnson County, KS

Sun Sep 21, 2008

Lee's Summit Journal - Lee's Summit, ...

Longview Barn gets second chance

Longview's 40,000-square-foot Calf and Shelter Barn, in the heart of the New Longview development, will live again.

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Fri Sep 19, 2008

KansasCity.com

Thursday editorial: Remember Kelsey Smith,...

A life sentence has sent Edwin Hall off to the hard, anonymous confines of prison.

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Related Topix: Overland Park, KS, Kansas State University, Opinion

Wed Sep 17, 2008

St. Louis Nursing News

Park Place developer sees vision taking shape

A picture is worth thousands of square feet. Park Place Developers LLC partner Jeffrey Alpert said Park Place, 115th Street and Nall Avenue, is drawing patrons and resembles the vision he and partner Melanie ...

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Related Topix: Johnson County, KS

Tue Sep 16, 2008

Kansas City Star

The Watchdog: - Porch Lights' sculpture will soon be complete

Today’s problemSome weeks ago, Leawood’s Tom Gilcrest noticed that a curious concrete triangular object was formed and poured in the median between Lee Boulevard and Somerset Drive.It has various ...

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Related Topix: Prairie Village, KS

Sun Sep 14, 2008

Kansas City Business Journal

Lockton Risk Services buys Alternative Risk Services

Lockton Risk Services has purchased Alternative Risk Services for an undisclosed amount, an official with LRS said Friday.

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Related Topix: Kansas City, MO Metro, Overland Park, KS, Missouri, Alternative

Fri Sep 12, 2008

Freep.com - RSS

Thanks to Facebook, a generation documents itself like never

On a recent Saturday, 25-year-old Ramsey Mohsen of Fairway, Kan., did something at his parents' lake house that tens of millions of computer-savvy young people are doing more and more.

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Related Topix: Fairway, KS, University of Kansas, Stanford University, Blog News, University of Missouri Kansas City

Mon Sep 08, 2008

CSRwire.com

American Academy of Family Physicians and MetLife Foundation...

LEAWOOD, Kan., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Family Physicians and the AAFP Foundation have announced a new partnership with MetLife Foundation, which is providing a $215,000 grant ...

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Related Topix: Life, Nutrition, Food, Family Practice, Medicine

Sat Sep 06, 2008

People for the Ethical Treatment of A...

PETA Teams Up With Kids and Cars to Help Save Lives

Because hot cars are no place for "man nor beast," PETA has teamed up with KIDS AND CARS , a Leawood, Kan.-based national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing injuries and deaths of children in ...

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Heat Wave

Thu Sep 04, 2008

TheKansasCityChannel

Pharmacist Gets Probation For Selling Fake Lipitor

Former Kansas City-area pharmacist Doug Albers has received five years' probation for selling fake or misbranded medication.

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Leawood, Kansas is located in Johnson County and is part of the Kansas City, MO Metro Area. Zip codes in Leawood, KS include 66209, 66206, and 66211.

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