Lansing News

A shooting suspect’s mother allegedly threatened a witness against her son last week.

From Shawnee PD: On 7-13-08, 90-year-old Warren Wagner left his Shawnee residence in his Silver 2007 Chevy Colbalt 2-door to run some errands.

And decisions you make at the polls will help determine how legislators react to those problems: Will they find more money -- through taxes or fees or other means -- to avoid cutting programs? Or will they cut ...

Eight children and an adult clambered through a living room window to safety after Wednesday night’s storms pushed a tree onto their house in east Kansas City.That tree was one of many felled by the bout ...

A choir performing at a Kansas church is nothing unusual - except for Sunday's show at Rolling Springs Church in Overland Park.

A motorcycle-pickup collision killed a Lansing man and injured two Leavenworth men Saturday evening near Lansing.According to a preliminary report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, 36-year-old Sean C. Douglas was ...

Young, 50, was released Friday from a halfway house after serving time at the Federal Detention Center in Houston, according the U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Mike Truman.

Greg Murray wasn't looking forward to getting up at 5 a.m. today, but he's happy to be returning to work at General Motors Corp.'s Fairfax Assembly in Kansas City, Kan.

GM reached the deal on a local contract with United Auto Workers Local 31 at the plant Tuesday evening, company spokesman Dan Flores said.

A Mission Hills, Kan., man accused in a deadly hit-and-run wreck appeared in court Monday afternoon.

Police said they have identified the man they think was driving a car involved in a fatal hit-and-run early Sunday morning. via KMBC

“He was in charge of displays at the store on the Plaza. He was very artistic. This is something totally out of the blue.”

Daniel L. Riemann, 25, disappeared from a party Saturday night at a friend’s house in the 4900 block of Summit Street in Kansas City.He didn’t tell anyone where he was going. via KansasCity.com

“To make that decision takes a lot more study -- I'm talking weeks of study”

Kathleen Sebelius' veto of a bill allowing two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas. via The Wichita Eagle

“Unfortunately, the people I teach don't get snow days”

Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 Actor tries to bring culture to inmates in Lansing prison's mental health unit By ROBERT TRUSSELL The Kansas City Star It's another bone-chilling Tuesday afternoon. via The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

“Instead of negotiating, they want to dictate”

Republicans voting for a new tax, Democrats opposing a disincentive for polluting? It almost seemed like an April Fools' Day joke. via Topeka Capital-Journal

A Lansing man could face the death penalty in the homicide of his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child.

Leavenworth County Attorney Frank Kohl amended charges Thursday against Sedale Fox, who is accused of killing 20-year-old Olivia R. Jackson and an unborn girl, who was weeks away from birth.

Fox had been charged with first-degree murder, but Kohl said he amended the charges after reviewing the final autopsy report.

Kohl has not declared his intention to seek the death penalty, but the amended charges give him that option as the investigation continues. Read more

Lansing, Kan., has never been a hot spot for college recruiters. But that'll change this spring, because one of the top prospects for the class of 2009 in Kansas is from the school, which is just northwest of ... via Rivals.com

“I think that's a lot of the charm of it, and a lot of it is, of course, people believe in what we're doing.”

A chorus of inmates from Lansing Correctional Facility that draws crowds in Kansas City every year will perform in Wichita on Thursday night.

The free concert at Century II by the East Hill Singers, directed by former area resident and teacher Elvera Voth, will be part of the annual workshop of the Kansas Music Educators Association.

It will start at 8 p.m. and will be open to the public.

The first time someone attends a concert by the inmates may be out of curiosity, said Jean Ney, association president. 'But after that,' she said, 'musicians go because (high) quality music is performed, and they see lives changing before their eyes.' Read more

“I think life in prison should mean just that - life in prison”

Carole Duffield said she feels as though her family got the life sentence instead of Michael Cade. via The Olathe News

A Lansing man accused of murdering his 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend faces an additional charge of conspiring to commit murder, according to charges released Friday.

Sedale Fox, 23, of Lansing, and Jared A. Reed, 21, of Farley, Mo., each have been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with the Jan. 11 bombing of a home where Fox's girlfriend had been staying about two weeks before her murder.

The charges against the two men were filed in separate cases, but they share a common victim, Olivia R. Jackson of Leavenworth. Read more