Edwardsville News

From the blotter: Officers witnessed to a driver falling out of his vehicle at 9th Street and Woodend Road.

Several companies vying for the chance to build a casino in Wyandotte County got their answer Friday morning.

The Dole Institute of Politics will hold the event, which focuses on American Indiana education and assimilation.

Despite mud and floodwater, the fiddles and banjos will still play next week at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kan., organizers say.

Nine in 10 Kansas schools hit their No Child Left Behind targets this year, a slight improvement over last year, even as the goals for student proficiency rise.Overall, 139 of 1,365 Kansas schools did not make ...

A few months ago, Keith Middlemas got an unexpected call. The caller asked if he would be interested in carving a stone arrowhead for the lawn of the Kansas City Chiefs training facility.

" Bail has been set at $100,000 an Edwardsville man following a standoff. The Wyandotte County District Attorney charged 41-year-old Steven McDougal on Thursday with one count of Aggravated Assault on a Law ...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Rick Alm column: Final Kansas casino reports reveal no surprises Sep.

Bridge victim identifiedPolice have identified the man killed on the Heart of America Bridge on Sunday morning in an apparent hit-and-run accident.Angel M. Cameron, 41, of Kansas City, appeared to have been ...

Police descended on a mobile home park in a small town outside Kansas City after a dispute between a man and his girlfriend, neighbors said.

Legal staff for Wyandotte County’s Unified Government presented three no-smoking proposals to elected officials Thursday, including one that would ban indoor smoking at restaurants and bars in Kansas ...

All of this area's largest cities have tough smoke-free laws, with the regrettable exception of Kansas City, Kan .

Last weekend gun violence in Kansas City was nearly out of control . . . The high temperatures have seen a significant increase in gun related crimes i.e. a bunch of dead bodies on metro streets.

The Las Vegas Sands Casino pulls out of a possible bid to build a casino near Edwardsville.

The Las Vegas Sands Casino pulls out of a possible bid to build a casino near Edwardsville.

Wyandotte County’s governing body approved a .3 percent reduction in the 2009 property tax rate Thursday evening and could seek a larger cut if Mayor Joe Reardon gets his way.But no tax cut comes without ...

Faced with a severe economic downturn, administrators for Wyandotte County’s Unified Government are proposing a freeze on capital projects, equipment purchases and on hiring most new employees.In a ...

Two children were the only survivors of a crash which killed both their parents in Edwardsville overnight Wednesday.

The northbound lanes of Interstate 435 remains closed this morning between Woodend Road and Kansas 32 in Edwardsville as authorities investigate a late-night fatality accident.One person died in the head-on ...

Employees achieve design designation Trivers Associates, an architecture firm with offices in St.