Lenexa News

City of Hays staff, in an attempt to prevent a repeat of last summer's fireworks policy snags, recommended to city commissioners at Thursday night's work session a ban on the sale and use of fireworks for 2013.

DEAR ABBY: I am a divorcee with college-aged children. I love my children, and I thought I loved my ex.

The Kansas Driving Under the Influence law: The Kansas Legislature passed the "Zero Tolerance" law making it illegal for anyone under 21 to operate or attempt to operate a motor vehicle with a blood or breath alcohol concentration of .02 or above .

A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of A- and issuer credit rating of "a-" of Benchmark Insurance Company .

The KU Chapter of Sigma Xi, international, multidisciplinary research society, has awarded their undergraduate research awards to six KU undergraduates.

The Kansas Department of Transportation is paring down the candidates for the design-build team that will lead the way on building the $600 million Johnson County Gateway Project interchange improvement project at the intersection of Interstate 35, 435 and Kansas Highway 10 in Lenexa.

People rarely reappear after vanishing for a decade. In most cases that remain unsolved for years, the outcome is grim.

Sarah Howell , a spokeswoman for Danish water pump manufacturer's North American operations, said only CEO Jes Munk Hansen and CFO Sherri Baffa will move from Olathe to the new Chicago area offices along with two or three other executives who will support the new operation.

Tiffany Greens Golf Course hosted the Golf Channel Amateur Tour on Sunday May 5. The players were faced with a course that in the first week of May had endured freezing cold temperatures, rain and snow.

Yo-yo champions from multiple states descended on Topeka Saturday for the Third Annual Kansas State YoYo contest at the Kansas Children's Discovery Center.

Mid-America Angels Investments LLC is in fundraising mode. The Lenexa group, which is the investment arm of the Enterprise Center of Johnson County, raised more than half of a million dollars in late April, according to a Wednesday filing.

With high school and college graduations fast approaching, the Ellis County Community Partnership and the Regional Prevention Center of Northwest Kansas is urging parents help keep graduates safe by discouraging underage drinking and resisting requests to provide alcohol for their underage graduates this year.

A Kansas City man has been arrested and charged with the robberies at JB's One Stop Convenience Store and a Quik Trip in Lenexa.

A Lenexa physics and chemistry teacher who has been recognized for his work in the classroom now faces charges involving sexual crimes against a child.

Johnson County's vibrant system of libraries is very popular with its patrons. Still, changes are afoot, which is encouraging to hear as long as they are well-vetted. The continued march of technological advances has forced libraries to add more computers.

Program takes Ford crew away from the assembly line to make a difference in the community, and the workers love it: 'It fills my heart.' Transportation district lawyers said the appeal sought by two downtown property owners would mean costly delays for the $100 million project This makes two clunkers in a row for the Royals as the schedule is about ... (more)

Lenexa police are looking for a man they say robbed a convenience store after failing to rob another Monday morning.

Applicants interested in the Emporia Hostess bakery jobs may apply online at www.the-arnold-group.com or sign up for more information at jobs.hbnewco.com . Interested workers also may call 816-701-4600 for more information or apply in person at the KansasWorks offices at 1622 Industrial Road, in Emporia's Flint Hills Mall.

Residents of Overbrook and Topeka were among those elected officers of the Libertarian Party of Kansas at its convention held Saturday on the campus of Emporia State University.

Johnson County drivers will have yet another reason to groan in the summer as the Kansas Department of Transportation plans to perform bridge maintenance on Interstate 435 over Kansas Highway 10 in Lenexa from late April through September.