Merriam News

During a sobriety checkpoint this past weekend, Kansas City police arrested four motorists for driving under the influence.Police stopped 154 vehicles.

The Climate and Energy Project's year-long "Take Charge Challenge" is half way through.

With the sun setting the flags ablaze Zacarra Dykens unfurled and placed American Flags as he and other members of Boy Scouts of America Troop 162, sponsored by the Hickory Hills congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, installed 800 four-foot by six-foot flags in honor of Veteran's Day on the eastern hillside of I-35 near ...

Since its inception a year and a half ago, the H. Dale Buck Animal Welfare Memorial Funda s Big Fix program, also known as the Neuter Scooter, has spayed and neutered around 300 dogs and cats at a reduced price for those who qualify for the program.

Tennessee Williams' classic drama "The Glass Menagerie" will be staged by the University Theatre at the University of Kansas at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

A telephone scam artist is targeting retirees in the metro -prompting police to warn seniors of the old adage -- "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Virginia Thayer is very careful when it comes to protecting her 4-year-old granddaughter Maggie who she babysits.

A new type of doctors office is about to open in the metro and it promises to bring a new wrinkle to the health care community.

MERRIAM, Kan. a ' The Merriam Police Department plans to increase its patrol efforts late Saturday and into early Sunday morning to catch drunk drivers.

Globe/Roger Nomer Ernestine Carr and Allen Merriam, members of the Joplin branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, share a laugh this week while talking about the chapterA's plans to mark the national organizationA's 100th anniversary.

A lawsuit between a strip club owner and a property developer may hold up a development at the northwest corner of S.W. 29th and Fairlawn a while longer.

Raena Jo Fossen and Brooks James Rice were married July 12 in Merriam, Kan., with Rabbi Jerry Feldman officiating.

ATCHISON, Kan. a ' Members of the legendary Ninety-Nines, the females-only aviation group begun by Amelia Earhart in 1929, will be in Atchison on Friday, October 23rd, to help celebrate the release of Fox Searchlighta TMs new biopic "Amelia". The film, starring Hilllary Swank , details the life of the pioneer aviatrix, who mysteriously disappeared ...

If you are a child in Johnson County, or the parent or grandparent of a child in Johnson County, it is likely you have visited Dodge Town at Antioch Park, 6501 Antioch Road, Merriam.

The hostess at the IHOP at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Antioch greeted me with a question I hadna t heard in a very long time.

Gifford and Elfrieda Spaugh, Hays, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary Oct.

The buyer receives the Hummer brand, trademark and all license rights to manufacture Hummer vehicles.

" Schools, libraries, parents and children will "Read for the Record" Thursday. This is the fourth year for Jumpstart's event, which aims to set the record for the most number of people reading the same book on the same day.

Three Johnson County, Kan., men have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of an 18-year-old Overland Park woman who had been missing for nearly a week.

Two water main breaks in Merriam left a number of homes without water Thursday night and others with yards being torn up.

Municipal swimming pool revenues might have weathered the bad economy better this year if only the summer had been, well, more summery.