Johnson County

The FDA this week gave emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to be administered to children in the 12-15 age range.

School officials are recommending Olathe North High School baseball coach Pete Flood be fired.

Even though Johnson County no longer requires masks to be worn in public, local police departments maintain that reaching a peaceful resolution is preferable to arrests and charges.

Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. said he was looking to kill Jews when he fatally shot three people in Overland Park in April 2014. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2015.

Kansas was 45th in the country in solar energy last year, with only 0.2% of its energy coming from solar.

The investigation by a group of Johnson County law enforcement officers assigned to police-involved shootings has been kept under wraps since 17-year-old John Albers was shot and killed by an Overland Park police officer in 2018.

More than a year after COVID-19 closed courtrooms, Johnson County is adding more prosecutors and an assistant to tackle a backlog of up to 500 cases.

Prior to the pandemic, many Latinos struggled to access the mental health care they needed. Stay-at-home orders, essential working duties and a dearth of support have only made things worse.

The Johnson County Museum's Christmas decorations have delighted visitors since 1999. Now, a table set for a Seder and other Judaic pieces mark its first celebration of a non-Christian religious holiday.

Ethan Ridings, 20, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for killing two Kansas, City, Kansas, 19-year-olds during a small-time drug deal. His friend who involved him in the deal was placed on probation.

More than 2,000 people in the Kansas City area died from COVID-19. Area leaders gathered to mark one year since they announced restrictions that would upend life across the metro.

Johnson County residents have guessed at the origins of the name for an unassuming, unmarked creek in southern Overland Park. But the reality may be far grimmer than previously thought.