Legal issues

Five households with property along the southern edge of the proposed Mission Chateau senior living development have filed suit to stop the Prairie Village City Council from considering the latest plan submitted by the Tutera Group for the Mission...

A lawsuit filed by a group of Shawnee Mission parents over adequate school funding is still alive after a federal judge refused to dismiss the case. The lawsuit challenges the state's cap on how much money residents can raise in...

Johnson County Open Carry, the Second Amendment rights advocacy organization that wanted to hold an "open-carry picnic" at Harmon Park in June, has filed a new lawsuit against the city of Prairie Village. The suit filed in Johnson County District...

Prairie Village and Leawood police collaborated in a sting operation last week that led to the arrest of more than 50 persons on pending charges of prostitution or soliciting a prostitute. Even though officers from both cities participated in the...

Roeland Park's City Council ethics investigation — or non investigation, perhaps — became something of a mystery this week after a 90-minute executive session on ethics that produced no statement from the council. At the May 20 council meeting, losing mayoral...

A Prairie Village resident has informed the city that a group called "Johnson County Open Carry" intends to hold an "open carry of holstered firearms picnic" at the Harmon Park Pavilion in June. The event would ostensibly test Prairie Village's...

What do these two photos have in common? Stumped? The answer, of course, is that they are both  Twisted Sisters. One is the coffee shop and cafe on Johnson Drive in Mission. The other is the 1970s era heavy metal...