A Kansas prosecutor says he wants to try four 14-year-olds as adults in the shooting death of a Missouri man. They are among six teenagers charged in juvenile court with first-degree murder in the death of 19-yearold Marco Cardino, of Smithville, Missouri.
Alex Vohs of Lawrence has had a passion for food since childhood. “I really liked to make breakfast for family,” he recalled. “Any time they’d come over I’d do a big brunch for everyone, so I’ve kind of enjoyed cooking ever since.”
TOPEKA — Attorney General Derek Schmidt began proceedings Monday asserting to the Kansas Supreme Court that new boundaries for Kansas House and Senate districts violated no law. He urged them to look at the product, not the process, when determining validity of the map.
Rogelio Nemo Gonzalez-Neale receives diploma from Principal Josh Adams during the Wellsville High School graduation ceremony Saturday afternoon. Photo by Laura Gulley .
Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill allowing autonomous vehicles to operate on Kansas roads and vetoed legislation restricting public health officials’ response to all infectious disease outbreaks, a mandate imposing a no-bid contract for Medicaid services and limitations on the executive branch’s enforcement of election law.
The Ottawa High School Class of 2022 locks arms as they sing the Alma Mater one last time together. Photo by Greg Mast/The Ottawa .
A traveling exhibit about Indigenous people in Kansas and Missouri will be on display at Ottawa’s Old Depot Museum for the next two months. The exhibit, called “Living Sovereignty: Sustaining Indigenous Autonomy in Indian Territory in Kansas” was created by graduate students from the University of Kansas’s Museum Studies department in conjunction with the Watkins Museum of History.
The first thing you’ll notice about Kelley Rowlett is her accent, which makes it clear she’s not from Kansas. Rowlett and her husband moved from Tennessee in 2019, and when she was looking for a teaching job in the area, USD 288 caught her attention.
Ottawa’s Prairie Paws Animal Shelter is set to receive a $10,000 grant from national nonprofit Petco Love on June 21 at 11 am at the Petco on Iowa Street in Lawrence. Founded in 1999, Petco Love is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding local animal shelters and adoption centers.
One of the traditions of the graduates is to decorate their hats. The West Franklin seniors were creative with their art skills.