Stilwell News

Federal prosecutors have charged twice-indicted Kansas City-area home builder F. Jeffrey Miller with additional crimes.

MHS grads helped power the schoola TMs standing. Manhattan High School students, parents and alums will be proudly clicking on to Newsweek.com this week.

Claude E. "Bud" Smith Jr., 75, of Louisburg, Kan., died Thursday, June 4, 2009. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Monday, June 8, 2009, at Penwell - "Gabel Louisburg Chapel.

Ed York is just waiting for the dust to settle. York, president of Ottawa's Solutions Bank, said he, like many other bank leaders, is trying to weather the economic storm.

Gov. Mark Parkinson vetoed a bill that would have required landowner approval for annexations of more than 65 acres.

Mark Parkinson signed two bills Friday that were necessary to keep the budget for fiscal 2010 from running a deficit.

In one of their last votes, Kansas lawmakers have passed legislation to restrict cities’ power to annex land without the property owners’ consent.The measure would prohibit cities from absorbing tracts of more than 65 acres unless the landowners agree.The bill passed early Saturday, just as lawmakers finished their annual ...

After dedicating more than 40 years to music education, David Circle , Stilwell, retired in 2008.

What a difference a new governor makes. Almost overnight, the issue of whether to allow construction of a coal-fired electrical plant in western Kansas went from stalemate to agreement and from veto to approval with the announcement that Gov.

Members of the Kansas Organization of State Employees talk with Rep. Jim Ward D-Wichita, March 9 during KOSE Lobby Day at the Statehouse.

Unity Church of Overland Park, 10300 Antioch Road, Overland Park, presents "Permanent Prosperity" with Tom Anderson from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 30.

Jennifer Keehn, right, holds her nephew Gabe Keehn, 6, as her mother Susan Keehn looks on Sunday during the Shine the Light Vigil at the Statehouse.

City suspends retirement benefitThe City Council on Thursday voted to suspend a retirement benefit for high-level city administrators that was costing more than $260,000 a year.The council approved a measure that blocks the city from paying more into the supplemental retirement plan.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture recently cited several area food operations for critical health code violations.Among the actions:•Lucky Chinese Restaurant, 9544 Nall Ave., Overland Park, was cited after a March 6 inspection.

L. Edith and Louis Soetaert of Gardner will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary April 25 with an open house reception from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Parish Center, 130 E. Warren St., Gardner.

More lawsuits have been filed against the Kansas City Power and Light District. Call For Action first exposed the problem back in February.

The newest elementary school in the Blue Valley School District will be Timber Creek Elementary School, 16451 Flint St.

Today’s problemDave Donahue of Stilwell doesn’t like the looks of the new exit ramp from northbound U.S. 69 to eastbound Interstate 435 in Johnson County.“It’s a long bending exit ramp that could be taken at a pretty good rate of speed,” he tells the Dog.

Renovation work at the Mission Towers office building at 5600 Broadmoor St. is the center of a lawsuit filed by Malnar Construction.

The Louisburg Herald is looking for correspondents in Louisburg, the Bucyrus and Wea area, Stilwell, and Drexel, Cleveland, Freeman, and West Line, Mo., to help us report all the news that affects people in those communities.