De Soto News

Johnson County commissioners earlier this month considered vetoing a tax increment financing plan for a De Soto assisted living facility, with most saying they were upset that there was no plan by the city to help the county recover...

It’s been a very fruitful summer for Kennadi Fuhrman. This month, the De Soto High School senior received $125,000 in scholarship money for winning the girls’ competition in the Patriot Games in Geneva, Ohio. The competition for 14- to 17-year-olds...

Two Johnson County Sheriff's deputies won't face charges in the fatal shooting of a man who stabbed a person at the Panasonic Energy plant in De Soto in December. On Friday, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe announced that his...

De Soto residents have spotted a bobcat wandering around the neighborhood, showing up often enough that they’ve been able to take photos of the normally elusive animal. But Johnson County Animal Control said there may be a reason it keeps...

Firefighters from three departments responded to a fire at Panasonic Energy in De Soto early Wednesday morning. Northwest Consolidated Fire District (NWCFD) crews were first called to the facility, 10301 Astra Parkway, at 2:09 a.m. for a fire alarm. Arriving firefighters...

Work on Beale Infrastructure's De Soto data center is officially underway, and much to many residents’ dismay, the project scope has more than doubled in size since it was announced last August. California-based Beale Infrastructure began construction in April on...

Just weeks after De Soto’s incoming 300-acre data center site broke ground, a separate data center developer is looking to build a campus nearly quadruple that size just down the road at Astra Enterprise Park. This marks the fourth data...

Three men from Johnson County were among the skydivers killed in Sunday's plane crash in Butler, Missouri. Eleven skydivers and one pilot were on board on flight, which crashed at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, just after takeoff from Butler Memorial...

What’s on your list of wanted amenities for De Soto’s community center? One De Soto child requests “a pool with a very twisty slide, a lasy river and a kitty pool.” While De Soto City Hall already features a community...

A lawsuit filed against Panasonic Energy alleges the company failed to respond to a worker's claims of sexual harassment and retaliated against her at its De Soto EV battery plant. In March in the U.S. District Court for the District...

Investigators say an Overland Park father left his two children inside a hot SUV for more than two hours last summer, with temperatures soaring past 100 degrees inside the vehicle, leading to his three-year-old daughter's death. A criminal affidavit, released...

Fire investigators say a chemical reaction inside a battery created heat and smoke on Tuesday morning at the Panasonic facility in De Soto. Firefighters with the Northwest Consolidated Fire District responded to the facility at 10301 Astra Parkway at 6:23...