Lenexa News

LENEXA, Kan. - The price of staying cool during a long, hot summer is going up for people repairing or replacing their air conditioners.

Ceva Biomune is moving part of its Kansas City-area staff to the Kansas Bioscience Authority's Venture Accelerator incubator for the next year as the company completes extensive renovations to its research and development facility in Lenexa.

Authorities got the call at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday for a possible break-in at St. James Academy near Prairie Star Parkway and Clare Road.

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The parking lot of a Hy-Vee grocery store in Lenexa seems an unlikely place to inspire an idea that would help thousands of combat soldiers.But that’s just what happened for Sid Linver.

Lenexa, KS - infoZine - Dynamic art with a local Latino flavor will highlight the tenth annual "Latino Art Bravisimo" art show, hosted by the City of Lenexa from June 8 through July 16.

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Two Kansas Democrats want the state's Republican attorney general to stay out of a federal court case over the Legislature's failure to redraw political boundaries.

After the credit crisis, as noted last week in " Can't Anyone Stage an IPO Anymore?, '' investors began to lose confidence in the nation's greatest minds on Wall Street for nearly bringing the world's economy down around them.

Spin Neapolitan Pizza keeps rolling. The seven-year-old local pizza chain will open its fifth area location this Monday at 9474 Renner Boulevard in Lenexa.

The $83.8 million U.S. Highway 69 reconstruction project is almost done, and with that comes the opening of the so-called "Tunnel to Nowhere," which opened Saturday afternoon but will have a ribbon cutting on Wednesday afternoon.

GEARY COUNTY, Kan. -- A Wichita man is recovering after being run over by a tractor while working in Geary County.

The Kansas House's Democratic leader is seeking permission to join in a federal lawsuit over the Legislature's failure to approve political redistricting proposals.

Presbyterian Healthcare has launched its search for a new president as Mark Billings transitions into a new role with parent Novant Health Inc.

Federal stock regulators suspended trading in three Kansas City area companies’ stocks on Monday amid a crackdown on investment fraud.The companies? They are familiar but not recently newsworthy firms – Trans World Airlines Inc.

No one knows for sure why Kevin Polidore decided to walk home along I-35 before dawn that Sunday morning.

Tom Quaife has been at the helm of monthly trade publication Dairy Herd Management for two decades now.

A fire this morning forced the evacuation of a Lenexa apartment building.The fire was reported about 6:40 a.m. in a building at the Oak Park Village apartments in the 9500 block of Monrovia Street.The fire was reported under control about 7:15 a.m. There were no initial reports of injuries.The cause of the fire was being investigated.View Fire ... (more)

Robert G. Boehm, 79, Seneca, Kan., died May 1, 2012, at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka after a weeklong illness.

She had just turned 41. She was a physically fit mom and nonsmoker, except for the rare social occasions when some friends might light up.