Johnson County News

Public safety sales tax forums setTwo public forums designed to inform residents about a proposed quarter-cent sales tax renewal on the Aug.

New University of Kansas students and their parents from Johnson and Wyandotte counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20, in Overland ...

Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline has bought a three-bedroom house in Shawnee.

An Olathe man who had pit bull terriers has been found guilty of the unlawful conduct of dogfighting and of cruelty to animals.A Johnson County judge delivered the verdicts Wednesday against Reginald Marcellius ...

A Johnson County judge has ruled that fingerprint evidence will be allowed in a case against a man accused of kidnapping an 18-year-old from a parking lot, raping and strangling her.

Last August, John Wilson reconnected with a childhood friend of his sister, murder victim Lizabeth Wilson.The two were attending court proceedings for John Henry Horton, the man who later was found guilty of ...

The Johnson County Sheriff department seized chicks, hens and roosters and also arrested two men Wednesday in west rural Olathe connected with an illegal cockfighting operation.

Forty-one-year-old Frank DeRemus pleaded not guilty to nine counts of felony criminal threat Monday and was scheduled for trial Aug.

Alphonse James Jackson, 19, of Kansas City was charged Saturday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Rodney Keith Butner Jr., 21, of Olathe.Jackson is being held on a $1 million bond.

" A Johnson County jury found an Olathe man guilty Wednesday of dog fighting charges.

An Olathe day-care owner has been charged with severely injuring a 7-month-old boy, and her business has been shut down.Officials of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the infant, who was not ...

Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Machain was charged in Johnson County with one count of obstruction of official duty and 172 counts of unlawful conduct of cockfighting.

A suspected cockfighting operation was raided Wednesday in rural Johnson County, the sheriff's department announced.

Charging highway tolls might be one way to help make up a $30 billion shortfall in Kansas transportation needs in the next two decades.A new report laying out a vision for the state’s transportation ...

The Kansas Department of Transportation's plan, to be released Wednesday, is a broad look at needs ranging from interstates to bike and pedestrian paths.

Kansas City -- Soaring gas prices are prompting a sharp increase in ridership on buses in the Kansas City metro area and elsewhere across the country.

Eight former employees of the Johnson County, Kan., district attorney's office who were fired by Phill Kline last year after he took office have dismissed their lawsuit against him.

It's June, and that means Feed the Need season in Johnson County. For more than 20 years, that's exactly what it's meant, as the Feed the Need campaign again fired up efforts with the county to gather food for ...

Do you have a relative who is missing?The Johnson County crime laboratory is asking you to provide DNA samples to match against DNA from human remains found around the country.Kevin Brewer, the lab’s DNA ...

John Q. Hammons Hotels Plans to Build a 315 room Embassy Suites Hotel and 80,000 sq ft Conference Center in Olathe, Kansas OLATHE, Kan.