With problems with the deed cleared up, the Lansing City Council approved the final plat for the Fairlane commercial development.

Now that children are again heading out to school each morning, a local law enforcement official has offered tips to keep students safe.

Sixteen years ago, Damon Hininger went to work for the Corrections Corporation of America as a correctional officer at the company’s Leavenworth Detention Center.

Firefighters had to extricate a Leavenworth woman following a rollover crash on Aug. 15 on Kansas Highway 5, according to sheriff’s office and fire department officials.

The announcement of Leavenworth as the location for the 2010 and 2011 Kansas Sampler Festival is now on hold because of recent personnel changes within the Leavenworth County government.

Leavenworth County will eliminate and reassign a total of 18 employees and positions to keep the 2009 mil levy increase at a minimum.