Merriam

MidAmerica Nazarene University will study the Madam C.J. Walker School, which was the subject of an important desegregation lawsuit in the 1940s.

The landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools may have played out differently if it hadn’t been for a tenacious group of women in Johnson County, Kansas, who led their own integration lawsuit five years earlier. The case centered around a two-room schoolhouse and included a lengthy boycott, big-shot NAACP lawyers, FBI surveillance — and six very brave children.

More than a dozen law enforcement agencies — from Overland Park to Prairie Village — will be encrypting their primary channels so listeners can't hear what police and dispatchers are saying over the air.

The city of Merriam is one of the latest local beneficiaries of a program in which plastic bags are recycled as free park benches. To make it happen, the city collected about 1,000 pounds of plastic bags in just four months.

Wilkes and his wife of 61 years, Wanda, lived in Merriam, Kansas, for nearly six decades. He served two terms as the mayor of Merriam, from 2001 to 2009, and was "instrumental" in the town's growth.

Henry, best known locally for designing the Verruckt water slide in Kansas City, Kansas, that caused the death of a young boy, faces up to 57 months in prison if he violates his probation.

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.

On the surface, these three Kansas businesses — all more than a hundred years old — may not have a lot in common, but they all say customers want two things right now: comfort and escape.

Although not generally well-known around Kansas City, Seaboard Corp. has far flung interests in pork, turkey, commodities trading and shipping.

If you’ve been to a rock show and bought a T-shirt, there’s a chance it was made in a non-descript factory on Merriam Drive just off of I-35.That’s the…

Nearly 100 Kansas City-area employees of Lee Jeans are slated to lose their jobs in connection with the company’s relocation from Merriam, Kansas, to…

After facing pushback from a vocal group of Merriam residents this summer, the Merriam City Council voted to approve the final design for a new $36.6…