Courts

A fatal traffic accident seven years ago that killed a popular employee at a Mission dry cleaners has resulted in a murder conviction. On Friday, a Johnson County jury found Landunn D. Richardson, 52, of Kansas City, Kansas guilty of a...

Joseph Heidesch, the former choir director at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, as well as the school itself, face another lawsuit connected to Heidesch's illegal taping of students undressing in his office. The latest lawsuit filed in...

Incessant and often angry, harassing calls and emails from one Overland Park resident to Johnson County and Overland Park employees have so overwhelmed law enforcement that it has slowed their ability to answer 911 calls, interfered with their focus...

A Tennessee woman was charged Tuesday with four counts related to a high-speed chase and subsequent standoff at a Johnson County gas station Sunday that ended with a Fairway police officer and a second suspect dead. Andrea Rene Cothran, 32,...

A 15-year-old boy has been charged in a shooting in Lenexa that left a 16-year-old girl in the hospital with a gunshot wound to her face. Court records show the boy, whom the Post is not naming since he is...

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has sued the city of Edgerton, contending that the city's annexation in 2020 of nearly 700 acres was illegal and that the land, which had been eyed for industrial development, must return to unincorporated...

A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of Karlie Mae Phelps, the mother of a toddler who was killed in a February 2022 house fire, after she failed to appear in court on Monday afternoon. As part of...

This is breaking news, and this story will be updated as the Post gets more information.  A Grain Valley, Mo., man has been charged with first degree murder for allegedly causing a severe crash at the intersection of Shawnee Mission...

A Leawood police officer and the city itself have been dropped as defendants in a federal discrimination lawsuit. The suit, filed last month in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., by Muriel Martin of Kansas City, Mo., alleges Martin,...

A Grandview, Mo., man faces six felony counts in Johnson County in connection to the death of a Shawnee Mission East High School senior nearly two years ago. Counts relate to 2021 death of SM East student The Johnson County District...

The former choir director at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park has been sentenced to more than five and a half years in prison for secretly videotaping female students changing clothes in his school office. Joseph Heidesch, 47,...

A Kansas City, Mo., woman is suing Saint Luke's Health System, the city of Leawood and Leawood Police for racial discrimination and civil rights violations after she says she was forcibly removed from a community hospital while in great...