Leavenworth County News

The 53rd annual Shrine Rode and Demo Derby is rolling into Tonganoxie tonight. The show continues Friday and Saturday with the demolition derby.

A 33-year-old Basehor man died in a motorcycle crash in rural Leavenworth County over the weekend, authorities said today.Colby S. Folsom died in the crash about 1:50 p.m. Saturday along 206th Street just north of Cantrell Road, northwest of Linwood, Kan., according to the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s office.Colby was riding his 1986 ... (more)

A grinding day at the Kansas Legislature suddenly turned dramatic Saturday night when Gov.

A Kansas man whom authorities say kidnapped and raped a Hutchinson woman was out on bond for similar charges in Leavenworth County.

After work my wife and I go for a bike ride, she on her two wheeled bike, me on my handcycle.

A Leavenworth County man is scheduled to appear in Kansas City federal court this afternoon on charges that he tried to hire a hit man to kill his wife.Late Friday, prosecutors charged Lee D. Smith, 37, of Basehor, Kan., with agreeing to pay $1,800 to have his wife killed as she arrived at her Johnson County office Thursday morning.But the person ... (more)

A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper who was injured when his car rolled and caught fire in December has returned to work.

Kutztown University senior Genevieve Smith, who is blind, works with a third-grade class at Kutztown Elementary School, where she student teaches.

Residents of a Tonganoxie mobile home park fear that a man surreptitiously videotaped children as they were using his pool and restroom.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. - The mother of a two-month-old boy was charged Friday with Aggravated Endangerment of a Child after the infant was found abandoned in a stroller.

A 28-year-old Leavenworth woman was charged with child endangerment after her 2-month-old boy was found alone in a stroller three blocks from their home.The Leavenworth County attorney charged Elizabeth Michaud with one count of felony aggravated child endangerment.The baby was checked out at a hospital and was released into protective custody.

A jury found a 39-year-old Leavenworth man guilty Monday of attempting to break into a home rather than shoveling newly fallen snow.The Leavenworth County jury deliberated for an hour before finding Sean Johnson guilty of attempted aggravated burglary and criminal damage to property.Trial testimony showed that on Feb.

State prisoners won't return anytime soon to a Kansas jail where four inmates escaped earlier this month, and most of the sex offenders and convicted killers housed in three other county jails have been moved to state prisons, the state's corrections secretary said.