From turkey to stuffing, gravy to mashed potatoes, a lot goes into our Thanksgiving dinners.

More charges in pregnant womans deathProsecutors have charged a second man in the Friday killing of a woman who was nine months pregnant.

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. a ' Blogger and former Kansas City Star columnist Hearne Christopher has been charged with DUI.

Former Kansas City Star gossip columnist Hearne Christopher Jr. has been charged with driving under the influence, according to police in Prairie Village.

Ruth Bell , Prairie Village, dedicated many years of her life to school libraries in Johnson County.

Here are some random newsy items from my reporter's notebook. Chili Cookoff Benefit Great chili comes from the heart, so the third annual chili cook-off sponsored by the Wyandotte Homeless Services Coalition is a no-brainer. The event is slated for Thursday, November 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Wilhemina Gill Services Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

More than a week after Ryan Haraughty was fired as a science teacher from Mission Valley Middle School, 8500 Mission Road, Prairie Village, parents and students continue to ask Shawnee Mission School District officials to reconsider.

The Shawnee Mission School District superintendent told parents tonight that it was time to put the controversial firing of teacher behind them and move forward.We recognize people are angry and upset, said Gene Johnson during a meeting at Mission Valley Middle School in Prairie Village.

Eighth-grade students at Mission Valley Middle School in Prairie Village will not let the firing of a beloved teacher fade quietly away.A group of about 50 cut classes today and demonstrated outside the school waving homemade signs urging drivers along Mission Road to honk their support for Ryan Haraughty, a science teacher who was fired Monday by ...

Although located in a cheery setting in the US heartland, the store's interior reflects the offbeat pen-and-ink drawings of the famous author and illustrator who fancied morbid Victorian and Edwardian styles.

" Students in Prairie Village say they won't give up the fight to have a popular teacher reinstated.

An eighth-grade teacher said he is upset about being fired, but encouraged by the outpouring of support from students he taught.

REMEMBER Dorothy's exclamation to her little dog Toto in the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz?" "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," she said as the two emerged from the tornado-transported farmhouse into the magical Technicolor of Oz.

People frequently misspell and mispronounce Jaclyn Frankenbergs first name. We laugh about it when people call me JacQUEline.

Church Women United of Johnson County will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Rolling Hills Presbyterian Church, 9300 Nall Ave., Overland Park.

The victim's son, who is serving in the military, never expected to come home to find his father badly beaten after taking a trip to a Prairie Village grocery store.

A $10.2 million bond offering from the city of Prairie Village has been rated Aa1 by Moody's Investors Service.

A Prairie Village man was beaten and robbed near his car, while waiting for his wife to shop for groceries.

Lenexa United Methodist Church, 9138 Caenen Lake Road, Lenexa, offers a Trunk or Treat event from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct.

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