Author: Mary Rupert

Day of service planned for governor’s inauguration

A day of service is planned for Gov. Laura Kelly’s inauguration.

The day of service will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 7 at Cross-Lines Community Market, 736 Shawnee Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.

In Wyandotte County, Cross-Lines has organized a food and hygiene-household product drive.

Volunteers will participate by donating food, hygiene and household items to Cross-Lines Community Market. Cross-Lines provides direct assistance to at-risk families, the elderly and single individuals struggling to make ends meet.

The mission of Cross-Lines is to provide people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet today’s needs and provide tools for future self-sufficiency.

The most urgently needed items have been posted at https://postimg.cc/HV3D3hWJ.

Walk-away inmate back in custody after turning himself in

Minimum-custody resident Zachary H. Leis has been apprehended and is back in custody at the Wichita Work Release Facility, according to a spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Leis, a 28-year-old male, turned himself in just before the noon hour Tuesday, Dec. 27.

Leis was reported missing when he did not return to the facility after work Monday, according to a spokesman. Officials from the Kansas Department of Corrections, Enforcement, Apprehensions and Investigations (EAI), and the Kansas Highway Patrol had been searching throughout the night and this morning.

Leis is serving a sentence for convictions of aggravated assault, aggravated battery, criminal damage to property and two counts of domestic battery out of Sedgwick County.

  • Information from Kansas Department of Corrections