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Mayar was later elected as the first mayor of Leavenworth when the town was incorporated in 1906. [3] [6] The newspaper's editors during this period were Deed and his son Julian, who later enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War I. [7] Mayar retired in 1919 and sold the newspaper to the Echo Publishing Company (EPC). [3]
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
The city's weekly newspaper, the Leavenworth Echo, was founded in 1904 and independently operated until it was acquired in 2023 by Ward Media. [48] [49] Jazz radio station KOHO-FM was founded in 1999 and broadcast from Leavenworth until it switched to Northwest Public Radio's feed in 2022.
After the Osage investigation, White left the BOI (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935) and took charge as Warden of the Leavenworth Prison until 1931, when he was seriously injured after being held hostage by armed prisoners and shot in a prison escape attempt.
The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the life sentence of a Kansas City, Kansas woman convicted of the 2017 murder of her estranged husband, the Leavenworth County Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
Deceased; fatally stabbed at USP Leavenworth in 1986 while serving a life sentence. Leader of the "69 Mob" gang, which sold millions of dollars worth of heroin throughout California in the early 1980s and protected its turf through violence; convicted in 1985 of murder, murder conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy ; Mitchell is credited ...
The Daily Journal of Commerce was founded by George H. Himes in 1872, [2] [4] and was initially known as the Commercial Reporter. [5] It merged with Sunday Welcome (a competing public notice newspaper in Portland) in 1942 [6] [7] and was purchased by Dolan Media Company of Minneapolis in 1997.
Founded in 1856 by future United States Senator Robert Crozier, the Times claims to be the oldest daily newspaper in Kansas. Daniel R. Anthony, brother of Susan B. Anthony, bought the paper in 1871 and the paper remained in the Anthony family until the 1960s, even after Daniel Anthony shot and killed rival publisher R.C. Satterlee of the Kansas Herald, in 1871 (he was acquitted at trial), and ...