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The Leavenworth Times Leavenworth County commissioners approved a lease that will allow a for-profit psychiatric hospital to operate out of a portion of the former Saint Luke’s Cushing Hospital. Commissioners unanimously approved the lease agreement with Signature Behavioral Hospital Operations during a meeting Wednesday. Saint Luke’s Cushing Hospital, Leavenworth, closed in October and the building was donated to the county government. Commissioners already have expressed plans to relocate the county’s Council On Aging to the former hospital building and possibly other entities. The le...

Updated 5:55 p.m. April 15, 2021, with additional information. Charges have been filed against two people in a connection to a Leavenworth shooting that resulted in the death of a 12-year-old boy, the county attorney said. Darvon D. Thomas, 25, Leavenworth, and a 17-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, boy have been charged with first-degree murder in connection to an incident that occurred Wednesday evening outside of Kare Pharmacy, 2500 S. Fourth St. Leavenworth Police Chief Pat Kitchens said the Police Department began receiving multiple 911 calls around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday about a shooting at th...

Hearing set for immunity motion in murder case The Leavenworth Times A hearing has been scheduled for next week to determine whether a man should be immune from prosecution for a murder charge in Leavenworth County. The hearing for Cody J. Nichols is scheduled for April 21 in Leavenworth County District Court, according to court records. Cody J. Nichols, 20, is charged with first-degree murder in connection to the July 18 shooting death of Sanquan M. Brooks in Leavenworth. Nichols is accused of what is known as felony murder, which is a form of first-degree murder. Felony murder occurs when s...

The Health Department will continue to administer the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna. The announcement that the Health Department has stopped offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine until further notice comes after doctors with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a joint statement Tuesday recommending “a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution.” The recommendation was made following reports of six women in the United States developing a “rare and severe type of blood clot” after receiving the J...

The Leavenworth Times Leavenworth school board members voted this week to spend an additional $395,831 for school construction projects in addition to what was approved in a 2018 bond issue. Board members also voted to provide employees of the school district bonuses for working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Voters in the school district approved a $36.7 million bond issue in 2018 to pay things such as a new intermediate school and converting a former elementary school into an early education center. Superintendent Mike Roth said about $1.5 million from the school district’s capital outlay ...