Tag: Johnson County
Allen County residents who have traveled to Johnson County since March 15 are asked to quarantine themselves for 14 days, according to the latest information from the SEK Multi-County Health Departments. The recommendation also applies…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City-area woman who recently traveled to the Northeast is the first case of coronavirus in Kansas, officials confirmed Saturday. Gov. Laura Kelly and health officials said the woman, who’s…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has approved a $165,000 settlement between a large suburban Kansas City school district and a student who was sexually assaulted by a middle school classmate. The Shawnee…
FAIRWAY, Kan. (AP) Prosecutors have found that police were justified in shooting and wounding a man believed to have been firing shots near a suburban Kansas City elementary school. KMBC-TV reports that the Johnson…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) As an election supervisor and poll worker for more than 20 years, Robert Bailey routinely mailed in his ballot early, confident that voting problems elsewhere that he read about would have…
Here is the reality of politics in Kansas: Johnson County now comprises fully 20 percent of the states population. Nearly 57 percent of the states people live in the six largest counties, Johnson, Wyandotte, Douglas…
An Olathe Republican vying for a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives was arrested Thursday and charged with election perjury. The complaint filed by the Johnson County district attorneys office alleges Adam T. Thomas,…
On Thursday, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach reappointed Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie Metsker to a full four-year term. The announcement was expected. Metsker is a former chairman of the Johnson County Republican Party,…
