Merriam News

The city of Merriam wants to help residents pay for prescription drugs. Merriam is now offering the Prescription Discount Card.

Miniature Replicas of the Statue of Liberty, Flags for Freedom display, Riverfest, Royals, Afghanistan, Russia, South Korea, KCK bomb-making materials, Honduras, WASP, 2009 UFO Festival Alien Pet Costume Contest 1 Bonnie George of Shawnee shows her cousin Jacquelyn Jenkins of Deland, Fla., a photo of her in front of the Flags for Freedom display in ...

A Merriam, Kan. man has been sentenced to federal prison for mortgage fraud. Soctt Alexander, 70, pleaded guilty in Jan.

Families used to gathering up the kids, packing the car with lawn chairs and snacks, and heading to Shawnee Mission Park for the annual fireworks spectacular will have to find a new spot to celebrate their independence on July Fourth.

Call it "hot days and stormy nights" as another round of violent weather made for an interesting night across much of the metro.

Police continue to search for three suspects who were caught on tape robbing a Merriam, Kan., convenience store last week.

A great many local links featuring neighbors fighting with one another . . . Natch: One more great Westport bar fight: Westport Bar, Church Fight Over Liquor License Star's local coverage ads up to sweet but ineffective human interest stories: Friends far and near toast bartender, 85 Old money no more: The former Bloch estate has fallen into ...

A suburban Kansas City man has pleaded guilty in a drunken driving crash that killed a French exchange student at the University of Kansas as he pushed a stalled vehicle.

Take a look at whata TMs coming to Brookside. Landlord BKS Real Estate released this rendering for the former Star Motors Ltd.

One of the most prominent abortion doctors in the U.S. was killed Sunday during services at his Wichita, Kan.

A man driving by a Merriam home helped save a family whose house caught fire early Sunday.

Correction Appended: June 2, 2009 The May 31 murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, 67, has already been reconstructed in chilling detail: the threats to Good Samaritans who tried to intervene, the single shot in a Wichita, Kans., church, the wailing wife, the gunman's powder-blue getaway car decorated with a red rose - an antiabortion emblem - ...

A police officer keeps watch outside a Merriam, Kan. home where a suspected gunman in the shooting death of Dr.

Dr. George Tiller is best remembered in death for who he was in life, as a target, and quite possibly a victim, of a terrorist movement that can't abide laws that allow women to decide to terminate their pregnancies.

A 7-month-old baby is dead and the child's parents are looking to the infant's day care provider for answers.

WICHITA, Kan. - A man suspected of fatally shooting abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in church was in jail yesterday while investigators sought to learn more about his background, including any connection to anti-abortion groups.

Murder of Dr. George Tiller: NM Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Hosts Memorial Service Tonight in ABQ The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice will be sponsoring a memorial service honoring Dr.

The Kansas City Star reported on its Web site that Johnson County District Judge Brenda M. Cameron issued her ruling Tuesday in the case against 17-year-old Avrin Chapman of Overland Park.

A child-care center in Merriam closed today under state order while police investigate the death of a baby.State authorities announced today that they ordered Debbie’s Daycare, 9719 W. 59th Terrace, to close pending the investigation of the death of a 7-month-old girl.The child was taken to a hospital Saturday after being lethargic at the ...

A Merriam, Kansas man has been charged with first degree murder in the death of Dr.