Audio clips
Births
- Chris and Erin Thom, Bonner Springs, a girl.
- Elizabeth and Marcus Howell, Olathe, a boy.
- Kyle and Jill Reynolds, Overland Park Regional Medical Center, a boy.
- Jackson Thomas Sloan, Atchison, a boy.
- Robbie and Melissa Lewallen, Tonganoxie, a boy.
- Ryanne and David Toland, Bonner Springs, a girl.
- Molly and Andrew Crews, Bonner Springs, a girl.
- Michael and Kim Robbins, a boy.
Chats
- John Taylor: Chat with Sentinel/Chieftain editor John Taylor
- Frank Kohl: Chat with Leavenworth County Attorney Frank Kohl
- Todd Thompson: Chat with Todd Thompson, Republican candidate for Leavenworth County Attorney
- Connie O’Brien: Chat with Connie O’Brien, Republican candidate for Kansas House,
- Timothy Moran: Timothy Moran, Democratic candidate in the Kansas House District 42 race, to chat
Couples
- Engagement: Walters and Bussell
- Anniversary: McGraw
- Anniversary: Ottinger
- Anniversary: Hylton
- Wedding: Thornton and Bailey
- Anniversary: Weaver
- Engagement: Thornton and Bailey
- Engagement: Farnsworth and McGlinn
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
How do you prefer to give back during the holidays?
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| I prefer to give to locally-based organizations. | 79% | |
| I volunteer my time with local organizations rather than focusing on monetary donations. | 12% | |
| I support national organizations. | 8% | |
| Total | 24 | |
Videos
- Icy road conditions claim 4 more lives in Kansas
- November 29, 2015
- Authorities in Kansas are blaming four more traffic deaths in the Wichita area on the icy conditions gripping the state and other parts of the nation’s midsection.
- Kansas man charged with abuse after human remains found
- November 29, 2015
- A Kansas City, Kan., man was charged Friday with child abuse after police responded to an armed disturbance that led them to discover human remains at a barn on his property.
- Kansas City Connection: Pick up a unique gift at an upcoming arts and crafts fair
- November 29, 2015
- Next weekend in Kansas City, several independent holiday arts and crafts fairs will give shoppers and arts fans a chance to check out a wide variety of items for purchase.
- Court rules with city of Basehor in wrongful termination suit
- November 27, 2015
- The United States Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s judgment against an officer claiming he was fired from the Basehor Police Department for exercising his First Amendment rights.
- Face to Face: Basehor veterinarian Nikki Green
- November 27, 2015
- Nikki Green of the Wolf Creek Veterinary Clinic is the subject of this week’s Face to Face.
- Junction City man gets life for operating cocaine ring
- November 25, 2015
- A Junction City man faces life in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring in northeast Kansas.
- Leavenworth seeks scores of historical photos
- November 25, 2015
- The Leavenworth County Historical Society has launched a $1 million capital campaign to retrieve glass-plate photo negatives taken by prominent frontier photographers more than a century ago during Leavenworth’s pioneer days.
- Kansas urges court to let governor, lawmakers decide funding
- November 25, 2015
- State attorneys urged the Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow the governor and lawmakers to decide whether schools were getting enough money, not a small number of school districts challenging in the courts a new school-funding law.
- Coffeyville weathers Amazon job losses better than expected
- November 24, 2015
- Football fans still pack Veterans Memorial Stadium here on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons in the fall. The Verdigris River still flows sluggishly by. Life continues in this town of about 10,000 a year after its biggest employer, Amazon, announced it was leaving. The closing of the distribution warehouse, along with a couple of other plant closings and layoffs last year, meant the loss of more than 800 jobs — about 5 percent of all jobs in Montgomery County, The Wichita Eagle reported.
- KCP&L appeals rate increase ruling by Kansas regulators
- November 24, 2015
- Kansas City Power & Light is appealing a September ruling by Kansas regulators reducing the percentage of annual profit the utility is allowed to return to its stockholders.
- Hollywood Casino pushes back against requests of Woodlands owner
- Group presented its case to USD 240 school board, seeks support in WyCo
- November 24, 2015
- The Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway is proactively opposing a movement to reopen The Woodlands with the help of reduced taxes and incentives.
- Remember When for Nov. 26, 2015
- November 23, 2015
- Events reported this week in The Chieftain 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
- Thanksgiving holiday’s history varied, but meaning holds true
- November 23, 2015
- Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It combines almost everything I enjoy including family gatherings, good food and great sporting events on television. It is a holiday with a long and interesting history that has changed over the years.
- BLAS continues to add families to Christmas ‘Adopt-A-Family’ program
- November 23, 2015
- Each year, Debbie Dearinger gets to see the benefits of the Basehor community’s Christmas spirit of giving first-hand.
- Basehor VFW dinner a success thanks to volunteers
- November 23, 2015
- When you plan to cook a complete Thanksgiving dinner with all of the trimmings for 200 people, you can plan on not getting much sleep in the days leading up to the event.
- Topeka councilman, wife, charged with abusing children
- November 22, 2015
- A member of the Topeka City Council and his wife are accused of abusing and endangering some of the 16 children in their care and remained behind bars Friday afternoon.
- Group says youth drug overdoses up in Kansas
- November 22, 2015
- A study by a nonprofit health advocacy group says youth drug overdose rates are up in Kansas, but that they remain lower than the national rate.
- Kansas City Connection: More holiday events, tasty eats and food for your ears
- November 22, 2015
- No sooner had last Sunday’s holiday preview gone to press than I learned of two more interesting stage events taking place through 2015 in Kansas City.
- Both Kansas Cities raise age to buy tobacco products to 21
- November 20, 2015
- Young Kansas City smokers will have to drive a bit farther to buy their cigarettes, e-cigarettes or vapor products under an ordinance that’s getting widespread support in the metropolitan area.
- Kansas spending $20M to dredge John Redmond Reservoir
- November 20, 2015
- Kansas is spending about $20 million to remove sediment from the reservoir that serves as the primary water source for a nearby nuclear power plant and several communities.
