Olathe Area

An Overland Park chiropractor faces 10 years in federal prison for health care fraud. Kenya Laser, 35, of Overland Park, recently entered a guilty plea in federal court for the health care fraud that prosecutors say was committed during a...

A $1.9 million grant came to Olathe Public Schools earlier this week to continue its Head Start early childhood education program. The grant, announced by Rep. Sharice Davids on Tuesday, comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...

Patricia Lorraine Radley; Glenda Jeanine Williamson; Winona Mae Chrisjohn; Henry Roland Keeton; Marilyn Rae Hodges; Christopher Charles Osborne; George Winston Peeler II; Mary D. Rhodes; Norma Jean Adams; Ronald Edgar Beatty; Samuel B. Little; Amanda Brierly Dresie; Harriet...

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Overland Park had distributed, on average, $425,000 to nonprofits through the CDBG program in the past couple of years. That is the amount of money the city had planned...

You got through the primary, now it's on to November! Johnson Countians will have candidates up and down their ballots, from races for U.S. Senate and U.S. House to statewide offices like governor and attorney general. Every Kansas House seat will...

Over the past five months, Johnson County commissioners have stressed that they are searching every nook and cranny for ways to make the budget ends meet without slashing the services residents enjoy. At Tuesday night’s public budget hearing, a mostly...

Three adults and a child have non-life-threatening injuries after a rollover crash in Olathe on Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened at about 2:25 p.m. at the intersection of 135th Street and Black Bob Road in Olathe. Initial information from the scene...

Federal officials announced Tuesday they are pursuing “enforcement measures” against the Shawnee Mission and Olathe school districts for the districts’ policies regarding transgender students. It’s the latest step in the federal probe, which launched a year ago, against the two...

By Grace Hills Ten-year-old Duke Ommert died after an electric scooter crash in Leawood last year when a car struck him as he crossed the street mid-block. Duke’s death, other e-scooter and electric bike injuries (a nearly 300% increase in emergency...

To Christopher Kaberline's two young girls, Dolly Parton isn't an iconic global music legend. She's "Grandma Dolly." That's because they've grown up reading books provided for free by Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, titles like "I Am A Rainbow," "Ice Cream...

Olathe’s industrial footprint continues to expand. The Olathe City Council unanimously approved up to $239.8 million in industrial revenue bonds for three facilities that will manufacture electrical and power systems for data centers on Aug. 18. The buildings, operated by Wisconsin-based...

An Independence, Missouri, woman pleaded guilty to two felonies for her involvement in a fatal Olathe shooting that occurred last year. On July 23 in Johnson County District Court, Toni M. Tyson pleaded guilty to discharge of a firearm at...