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OLATHE, Kan. — An Olathe repair shop is seeing a huge surge in business. That’s because they decided to advertise...

Olathe had six homicides last year, setting a record for the Kansas City suburb.

Olathe had six homicides last year, setting a record for the Kansas City suburb.

Olathe, crowned the fastest-growing city in Kansas by the 2010 census, set a tragic record last year. Of 11 Johnson County homicides last year, more than half were in Olathe. The six slayings were the most the city has ever seen in a year.

Shawnee Mission East won its ninth consecutive Sunflower League Boys Swimming and Diving championship Saturday at Mission Trail Middle School in Olathe, but a history-making performance by Olathe Northwest senior Clark Thomas stole show.

For its first 22 years, the constant for the Olathe North football program was Gene Wier.

A former Johnson County state legislator who backed covenant marriages was named to run the state’s social services agency on Friday.

The architect of Olathe North’s football dynasty has returned to his roots.

COLUMBIA — Missouri freshman gymnast Rachel Updike has won the Big 12 Conference's past four Newcomer of the Week Awards, something that must thrill new Tigers assistant coach Jennifer Green. Before she came to Missouri, Green had worked with Updike for the past several years at Kansas Gymnastics Dance and Cheer in Olathe, Kan.  “Jen is like ...

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Legendary Olathe North football coach Gene Wier is set to rejoin the Eagles.

Will the Governor come calling?

Firefighters say one person was taken to a hospital with critical burns after an apartment fire in Olathe.

Dorothy White, a resident of San Marcos, Texas passed away at the age of 103 Monday, Jan. 30. She was born Dorothy Marie Fisher Feb. 7 1908 in Kansas City, Missouri. Dorothy moved to Olathe, Kansas with her family at an early age, and at the age of 19 she married Harold J. White and [...]

A coalition of business groups will propose Kansas start a new program to help some illegal immigrants remain in the state so they can hold down jobs in agriculture and other industries with labor shortages, ...

A coalition of business groups will propose Kansas start a new program to help some illegal immigrants remain in the state so they can hold down jobs in agriculture and other industries with labor shortages, ...

Foley Equipment on Monday completed its acquisition of Dean Machinery’s Construction and Power Systems divisions, including Dean’s Sedalia location. According to a news release, Foley acquired Dean’s operations in Kansas City, St. Joseph and Olathe, as well as Sedalia, located at 1040 Sedalia Road.

WPTV.com reports that Sophia Stocktona student at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansasfound a packet of cocaine inserted in a textbook she bought from Amazon.com. According to the report, the book, Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues, was for Stockton's course on terrorism. Stockton got the book on January ...

A House committee discussed Monday a proposal sponsored by an Olathe Republican to compel the Kansas' public employee retirement system to divest financial holdings in Iran . The chamber's pensions and benefits committee didn't take action, but Rep.

A college student in Kansas went to police after finding cocaine in a textbook she ordered from retail giant Amazon.com.