Five Kansas City-area spellers competed this week at the Scripps National Spelling Bee among 229 other spellers n Washington D.C. After the achievement of making it to the bee, the journey for each of the five spellers came to an end by the quarterfinal round.
Practice and luck propelled Santa Fe Trail Middle School eighth-grade student Dominic Marroquin, 13, through the Olathe School District’s spelling bee into the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Six teenagers are now in custody in connection to a fatal shooting Saturday at Black Bob Park in Olathe. The Johnson County District Attorney's Office is seeking to try four of them as adults.
Olathe Public Schools celebrated "Orange and Blue Day" on Wednesday to express the district’s unity following last Friday’s school shooting. Students, teachers, administrators, alumni and thousands of supporters took to social media and posted pictures wearing school colors under #OneOlatheFamily.