Born in his grandmother’s living room in the heart of Independence, City Commissioner candidate Tim Emert has lived in Independence his entire life, and notes with pride that everything good that has ever happened to him, save for meeting his wife in Kansas City, is rooted in Independence.

SEDGWICK COUNTY — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating the death of a 17-year-old who died after being in law enforcement custody. By statute, the KBI investigates all in-custody deaths which occur in Kansas jails and prisons, unless the inmate who dies is being regularly attended by a physician, or the death is ruled natural by autopsy.

CROP PROGRESS AND CONDITION MANHATTAN, Kan. September 27, 2021 - For the week ending September 26, 2021, there were 6.8 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top general testified Tuesday that the American war in Afghanistan ended in “strategic failure,” a grim conclusion that acknowledged a long series of mistakes and miscalculations by the Pentagon’s leaders.

Carolyn Dean Bryant Schaub passed peacefully in her sleep on 22 September, 2021. Aged 50. She fought ovarian cancer for 6 years. She is best remembered as a Mother. She is survived by both parents Alvin and Geraldine Ledbetter Bryant, Wichita, Ks, brother and sister-in-law Michael and Sandy Bryant and her 4 children Lindsay Graves and husband Matthew and Grandchildren Dagny and David Graves Independence, Ks , Andrew Schaub Wichita,Ks, Bailey Schaub, Kansas City, Mo, and Paloma Schaub, Indianapolis, Indiana. Memorial Services are pending at this time.

Jeanette Whiteacre, 81, died late Sunday evening September 26, 2021 at her home in Mound Valley, Kansas. Jeanette Whiteacre was born March 8, 1940 in Coffeyville, Kansas the daughter of Walter T.

Lois Pauline Morris Slater, 93, of Chanute passed away on Sunday, September 26, 2021. Lois was born December 16, 1927 in rural Galesburg, KS the daughter of James Oliver and Josephine E. “Dawson” Morris.

Set aside the specter of overflowing intensive care units in Idaho -- or that the state's emergency rooms are now choosing which COVID-19 patients to save and which ones to give up on. The situation is so bad that desperate patients are crossing the border into Washington state to find hospital beds, putting Spokane hospitals under siege. Idaho's coroners and funeral homes are

The City of Independence is opening two bids for Kiddy Land improvements at Riverside Park and Ralph Mitchell Zoo. Kiddy Land Infrastructure Improvements: Sealed bids for construction of Kiddy Land Infrastructure Improvements for the City of Independence will be received by the City of Independence until 2:00 p.m on October 14 and will then be publicly opened and read aloud at the Temporary City Hall at 811 West Laurel Street in Independence.

Dear Annie: My 20-year-old daughter, "Jessica," was adopted when she was 2 by her mom and her first husband, and I adopted her when she was 15. She decided to reach out to her birth mother in a very small town with very limited opportunities last February, and then she moved across the country to be with her in April. This broke my wife's heart, as they