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The original branch in the Johnson County Library system is getting set to permanently close its doors after nearly 70 years in operation. Antioch Library, 8700 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., will cease operations after Sunday, Jan. 28, in order to make...

A planned development at Johnson County’s New Century AirCenter in the hotly competitive field of lithium battery making has caught the eye of state and congressional representatives, some of whom say it should be canceled because they fear corporate...

For 13 Johnson County police agencies and hundreds of listeners to police radio scanners and phone apps, Jan. 23 will be "Encryption Day." Law enforcement officials see it as the day they take back control over how much of their...

The mood is somber in Magistrate Judge John McEntee’s on a recent Friday morning. It’s 8:30 a.m. and the courtroom is filling up. Waiting on hard wooden pews are people, many of whom have fallen thousands of dollars behind...

A former Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy who was charged with rape and aggravated sodomy in 2021 lost his state certification as a law enforcement officer in November, more than three years after the sexual assault was alleged to have...

It’s not that Jennifer Gwin and her sister were caught unaware by their mother’s Parkinson’s disease. They’d been preparing and researching future options. Their mother, in her early 80s, was still living in an apartment and getting help with housekeeping...

After completing a six-month listening tour, USD 232 in De Soto's superintendent is looking at ways to improve the school district. From April to October, the tour provided Superintendent Cory Gibson feedback from a wide swath of groups, including students,...

Homes and businesses up and down Interstate 35, the Gardner-Edgerton area and western Olathe suffered more from the heat and humidity last summer than other parts of Johnson County, according to the results of a heat mapping study done...