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By Anne Kniggendorf  Retired Lt. Col. Paul Darling of Overland Park trained some of the Afghan National Security Forces himself. Now he’s one of thousands of United States veterans of the war in Afghanistan trying to make sense of the...
The website Simple Thrifty Living has released its list of the best places in the U.S. for middle class families, and Mission tops the rankings in Kansas. Using data on household income, taxes, housing prices, the job market and education,...
Overland Park may have fallen off of one website's "Best Places to Live" list on account of the relatively high price of its housing stock. But it remains among the top 10 in Niche's latest ranking of the "Best Cities...
If you live in the Shawnee Mission area, you've got it about as good as it gets in the state of Kansas, according to a new set of rankings from the website Niche. Eight of the top ten slots in...
The best place to live in all of Kansas is right here in the Shawnee Mission area, according to a new list from Money magazine. Money's new Best Places to Live in the U.S. list says Lenexa is the top...
Overland Park is the 11th best city in the country to live, according to an annual set of national rankings by the website Livability. That's down two spots from OP's number nine ranking last year, but still among elite company....
The PBS NewsHour on Thursday broadcast an in-depth look at the governing philosophy behind the 2012 Kansas income tax cuts that included an interview with Fairway Rep. Melissa Rooker. Rooker, a Republican currently in her third term in the House,...
Northeast Johnson County continues to show well in national rankings of the best places to live. WalletHub, the national website that features information about finances, released its 2017 rankings of the "Best Small Cities in America," and Leawood came in...
The Ismert boys of Prairie Village have been playing music together for about three years — and it seems they have a talent for it. When a woman named Catherine Rose started streaming the trio, who go by the name...
Northeast Johnson County softball fans have known for years about the serious talent of SM East graduate sisters Shannon and Erin McGinley. And on Friday, a national audience heard a little about one of them as well. Shannon, who graduated...
A recent list of the "richest towns in America" has some northeast Johnson County residents scratching their heads. 24/7 Wall St.'s state-by-state list of the most well-heeled burgs in the country lists Prairie Village as the richest town in Kansas,...
Last Thursday, Jon Stewart used the first eight minutes of The Daily Show to poke fun at a series legislation that's come out of Topeka this past session — from allowing people to carry concealed firearms with no permit and...