Lansing News

All 3 Lansing prison escapees returned
May 11, 2013
All three inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison on Friday morning were back in custody Friday night, the Kansas Department of Corrections reported.
Two Lansing prison escapees in custody in Missouri; search for third escapee includes area near Bonner Springs
May 10, 2013
EDGERTON, MO. — Two of three inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison surrendered Friday afternoon at a northwest Missouri home where they had been holed up for hours, authorities said.
Humane Society offering spay/neuter service in Lansing
May 31, 2012
Lansing will be the site of the Leavenworth County Humane Society’s next low-cost spay/neuter transport pickup, June 14 and 15.
Special teams football camp to be offered in Basehor in June
May 17, 2012
The academy, open to incoming seventh-graders through graduating seniors, will take place at Basehor-Linwood High School from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on June 15.
Lansing escapee found in KCK
03:37 p.m., May 9, 2012 Updated 05:16 p.m.
A convicted sex offender who escaped from Lansing Correctional Facility three weeks ago was back in custody Wednesday afternoon.
Man who escaped from Lansing in April still free
May 4, 2012
A child sex offender who escaped from Lansing Correctional Facility on April 18 is still eluding authorities.
Convicted sex offender escapes from Lansing
April 18, 2012
A 59-year-old convicted sex offender escaped early Wednesday from Lansing Correctional Facility.
A Look Back: Annual Spaghetti Dinner
April 12, 2012
Through the years our Lansing Historical Society has been busy with fundraisers and fun things to keep our Museum going.
A Look Back: Obscuraday at our museum
April 9, 2012
Atlas Obscura is an international celebration of unusual places, full of expectation, backroom tours and explorations of hidden wonders in your own hometown. April 28 is the day this is celebrated all over the world.
A Look Back: TED talks
March 29, 2012
I have discovered one of the biggest changes in communications since the invention of the printing press. It is called TED which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design.
A Look Back: RSS feed information
March 22, 2012
The learning never stops where the internet is concerned.
A Look Back: A Brush with Letterheads
March 16, 2012
Since I retired from the Young Sign Company a few years ago, I still like to stop in the shop to visit the children and grandchildren.
A Look Back: Before photography
March 8, 2012
Recently I got an e-mail with a video that was about a Camera Lucida and it reminded me on one I used over 60 years ago. It is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. long before digital cameras and modern technology. It performs an optical superimposition of the subject being viewed upon the surface upon which the artist is drawing. The artist sees both the scene and the drawing surface simultaneously, as in a photographic double exposure.
A Look Back: Lansing gymnasium history
March 1, 2012
A week or so ago Rusty Wynkoop, a graduate of Lansing High School in 1966, asked me exactly where the gymnasium floor was in 1949 and 50, the years our team went to state.
Two men die near Lansing in apparent murder-suicide
March 1, 2012
Two men died Wednesday night west of Lansing after an apparent murder-suicide, Leavenworth County Undersheriff Ron Cranor said.

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