Overland Park News

Power in the Kansas House is likely to shift next year from rural parts of the state to the Kansas City area after members overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan bill Thursday for redrawing their districts.

An apparent explosion and fire in an Overland Park apartment complex tonight sent one person to a hospital but in good condition.The fire department called a second alarm to the fire in the 6100 block of Riley Street near Shawnee Mission Parkway.

A Gladstone woman on Thursday became the third area woman to plead guilty to a scheme of identity theft affecting hundreds of people to make Internet purchases.Carrie Lynne Evola, 44, admitted in federal court to a conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

MIQ Logistics is expanding its less-than-containerload consolidation service, offering weekly LCL service from Istanbul, Turkey, to New York.

People might have heard of thieves siphoning gas, but now some are taking it to a new level, one that is more costly, more dangerous and much more destructive.

RedStone Logistics bought fellow Overland Park logistics firm Headhaul Inc., the Kansas City Business Journal reports.

A bill to expand alcohol sales for grocers and other retailers has small business owners squaring off against each other.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Two Overland Park fathers are giving thanks after both had brushes with what's known as 'the silent killer." Carbon Monoxide seeped into their homes giving them and their families quite a scare.

Bold leadership built top-flight parks and libraries in Johnson County. Now timid leadership is chipping away at the qualities of both systems.A Star editorial Sunday pointed out the county’s years-long failure to buy and develop adequate park land to serve its fast-growing population.

Federal marshals and Overland Park police this morning arrested a convicted child molester who is accused of attacking another child in St.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- -- Vince & Associates Clinical Research, the premier provider of innovative early clinical research services to the global biopharmaceutical industry, announces the certification of their pharmacy clean room in compliance with United States Pharmacopeia USP guidelines.

Critics often complain of urban core corruption when decrying the state of Kansas City Public Schools but a recent NBC Action News investigation raises questions over a bid from a Golden Ghetto biz.

It’s a page torn out of a coloring book: a happy mermaid shaded carefully, no colors scribbled outside the lines.

A A Want to warm someoneA''s heart this ValentineA''s Day? A box of chocolates might do it.

Two people are hospitalized in serious condition after a generator in their Overland Park home produced carbon monoxide readings more than 20 times what is considered dangerous.A father and his son in the 7900 block of England Drive called 9-1-1 when they began feeling sick.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Two people are in the hospital after being exposed to Carbon Monoxide.

Bernard D. Larson, 79, of Hiawatha, died Sunday afternoon, February 5, 2012, at the Hiawatha Community Hospital.

Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com The Johnson County Sheriff's Office has a new robot that can be used to assess armed standoff situations and potentially save lives.

Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor expects to decide soon whether to pursue criminal charges over the shredding of state documents seen as key evidence in a criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic.

A federal judge on Monday granted conditional class-action status to a lawsuit filed on behalf of an estimated 700 workers at the Creekstone Farms Premium Beef slaughterhouse in Arkansas City.